PRODUCTION OF ANTQIUITIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1288, 27 January 1883, Page 2

PRODUCTION OF ANTQIUITIES.

There are thousands-! uf persons abroad ' in the land looking for avenues of escape for their money, and an army of handy work-men with wares to sell will do what they can to make such outlets numerous and easy. It is an old story that antique furniture two or three hundred years ago, dated from any desired land m arkin h iatorjr, . is turned over every year in great »ban* dance by those,who are'skilled in; lha . business*. Old. clocks,...old dreßses,old • bedsteads, and old anything, even if made yesterday, haro great value in the eyes of many persons satisfied with ,antiquity ia appearance.! Wm-eaten furniture is now one of the rages. This furniture 11 easily produced with the aid of bird-shot whioii f ; if fired into it. Old houses torn dowu' furnish worm-eaten timber of which the SBt of furniture used by Philip of Spain was niade. Frame produces .'old Bonuiiaiid Sevres ware by the cartload. Limoges enamels are plenty, The new ones (nearly all are new) are buried is moist earth* ' month and then dated back 800 or 400 years, aocording to the wants of the customers. He can be suited as to age. The famous ware of Henry ll's time is produced the year round. Treated with fluorahdis aoid it beoomes painfully old io a short time A ease north 20s has been known to advance to 1300 with the aid of ten cents worth of acid,- In Berlin, pottery 1 '•' used by the Romans—all Oasara—can be had by the orate,—Pottery Gazette.