YuQing Zhao: Hi! My name is YuQing Zhao here is my friend John, welcome to our
video series. Behind us are two pieces of furniture and they’re in the same
tack wall, they’re in similar style and same tack of hardware, similar
furnish. Can you tell which ones new and which ones old? Now I wanted
John to show you from one side which one old and which one new.
John Rogers: Okay as YuQing as suggested, the drawers often author a real good clue to
as which is which. In some other way the drawer itself but it is the extent
to which the drawer has been full bad and use. So the first thing that you
want to look for is actually not the drawer itself but whether there is
anywhere over by the slide part where the drawer will come out and I can
feel a tremendous amount of where over here. Where I mean is that slant
down, if you look at this drawer itself I can tell that there has been so
much where on this drawer slide that the slide itself as been replace a
restoration that is very similar to what happens on American piece of
furniture when the drawers have been use to a variety of extent. What over
here on this drawer now, first of all I feel absolutely nowhere on this case
piece so this drawer cannot have been in this case period case piece very
long and add all, because this is have been use that is not that as where. If
you look at the bottom of it this drawer looks simply brand new and there
is nowhere or whatsoever along this side. Also, if you look at the old
drawer you can see where on the bottom of the old drawer where people
are obviously puts stuff in and taken stuffs out over the course of the
years. That the tin of each one of the sides and the base and the drawer
front is similar very, very similar so it doesn’t appear to me that there has
been any restoration to the inside of this drawer except for the slide that I
pointed out. And the drawer bottom itself is rough and shows a great signs
of where. So that’s one of the things that you can play on your own
detective about when you are trying to determine whether a pieces there
old, remember check out the where on the case piece of self, check out the
where on the drawer, see if the tin is look the same and if they do your
better educated than you were when you came into the original. On behalf
of YuQing and myself thank you so much, hope you enjoy this video and
see you tomorrow.
YuQing Zhao: Thank you.