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Re: hoosier cabinet
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2010, 11:49:18 pm »
Nice! There are a lot of modern made Korean ones though that are similar to this style. So you kind of have to watch out that it's actually old and look at the wear marks in the drawer openings (the drawers are on runners that leave grooves at the lip of the opening) and if the doors on the cabinets are made with single pieces of wood (modern) and if there are signs of wear from the doors swinging and things rolling around inside the drawers. If it was in a thrift store I would look really carefully for signs of age. I'm finding that a lot of the thrift stores here have started selling anything antique through their online shops. I have only one thrift store I go to anymore and it's the only one I've been to in a long while that regularly carries antiques/collectables.
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