The book of the exhibition of houses and cottages, Romford garden suburb, Gidea Park (1911)
Romford (London, England). Gidea Park · London : published for the Exhibition Committee · leaf 164
ect of the antique. All collectors know that much of the charm of old furniture is found in its colour,and that colours can only be produced by the slow processes of age. Attempts arecontinually being made to achieve the same result by artificial means, but they havemerely succeeded in giving the… … process of fuming with ammonia finds favour withfew but the surviving devotees of Part nouveau. No process has been devised to imitate thebeautiful golden colour which age and decayingpolish have imported to old walnut furniture. Thefaded colour of old mahogany is perhaps the onlyeffect of time…
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