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Either it was stripped or painted.edisonplayer.

It appears to have been "antiqued". Painted in a faux wood grain in odd colors. My mother "improved" a lot of furniture in the 1960s that way

colmike1 wrote:It appears to have been "antiqued". Painted in a faux wood grain in odd colors. My mother "improved" a lot of furniture in the 1960s that way

Mine did as well. After she passed away I inherited one of the pieces, which I promptly dropped off with a furniture restorer to have the "antiquing" removed and the old finish restored. I'm generally a fan of the 1960s and 1970s, but not that part of it.

pughphonos wrote:

colmike1 wrote:It appears to have been "antiqued". Painted in a faux wood grain in odd colors. My mother "improved" a lot of furniture in the 1960s that way

Mine did as well. After she passed away I inherited one of the pieces, which I promptly dropped off with a furniture restorer to have the "antiquing" removed and the old finish restored. I'm generally a fan of the 1960s and 1970s, but not that part of it.

Every time my grand parents painted their living room, they painted their RCA radio. It had 12 distinct coats of paint. When my brother and I restored it in the late 1970s, it shrunk ⅛" in height and width!

Wow, that many coats? But not surprising for that generation. Painting everything in light colors was all the rage in the 1930s, '40s and '50s--and the '50s return to wood was still very beige. Thank goodness the mid-'60s restored an appreciation for lush dark wood. I live in a 1971 split-level with plenty of dark wood.

But the pendulum never stops swinging. You watch those HGTV renovation shows and they are nuts about stark white.
Bleah!

Mindy