[GreenKeys] model 14 and 2B questions

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I take it  that  some of the early tables really  were   wood  finish  no  
paint then? 
 
Ed#
 
 
In a message dated 11/2/2016 1:30:37 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

I happen  to have a wooden Model 19 table.  Some Western Electric 
distribution  house slathered some kind of gray-green paint on it.
There are places where  the gray-green has peeled and underneath you
can see nice mahogany  furniture finish.  Back in the 1930s they also
hand-painted the metal  covers of the equipment to look like grained
wood.  Which of course  looks perfectly phony, but I guess office people
in that era liked wooden  office furniture.  And then came the era of
metal office furniture and  they painted over the wood to make it look
like metal.  Now of course  we can get vinyl contact paper that looks
like wood so it's much cheaper to  fake wood finish.  Or leopard skin,
or any other design that happens  to be popular.



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