John Lake is devoted to restoring furniture. He says with any chair that's 150 years old, the glues will give and it will walk. But it's a simple repair that doesn't hurt the chair's value. Handmade items gave way to machine made when Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837. Another thing experts admire is damage.
Stains are no problem.
And neither is the veneer skin. Veneers have been around since the 1600s. Antique veneer is usually quite thick. So for love, not money, we're going to refinish an old table. Thursday night we'll see how that beat up table turns out.