How to Restore Antiques

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If you collect antiques for home use you will find this practical manual extremely valuable. It will show you in an easy-to-follow- text, and more than a hundred photographs and drawings, how to reiinish or restore furniture, repair old clocks and lamps, join metals, use old-time stenciling, electroplate with gold or silver and restore antique art. You will have the satisfaction of "doing it yourself" and at the same time effecting substantial savings. It is much cheaper to purchase an article in need of restoration. Then. too. bidders at country auctions usually shy away from things that need mending and, as a result, they may be had for low bids. This book does not suggestest that you attempt the restoration of antiques or objets d\nt of high value. Such work is best left to the experts. But there are many old pieces combining beautv and real usefulness which you can restore for your pleasure and profit.

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