Reproductions of antique furniture.

One must have preserved many naive Illusions if one may believe in al1 the "antiques" that are offered in the marketplaces of the world to-day. Each home has his Chippendale, Louis XIV or Venetian.
Even the greatest connoisseurs art: caught napping sometimes. as in the case of the famous crown supposedly dating to the Fifth Century, B. C., which was for a brief period one of the treasures of the Louvre.
Its origin was finally discovred,and great was the outcry! It had been traced to a Viennese artisan, a worker in tbe arts and crafts.
Surely, if the great men of the Louvre could be so deceived it is obvious that the amateur collector has litt1e chance at the hands of the dealers in old fumiture and other objects of art. Fortunately, the greatest dealers are quiet honest.
They tell you frankly if the old chair you covet is really old, if it has been partially, restored, or if i t is a copy, and they charge you accordingly.
At these dealers a small table of the Louis XVI period, or a single thair covered in me original tapestryt may cost as much as a man in modest circumstances would spend on his whole house.