I am not Dan Brown. I don't want to make too much of the idea that every furniture ornament, carving and moulding has meaning beyond: Ooooooh, pretty. Most ornament on old furniture isn’t trying to do anything more than entice a rich person to buy it.
But there are messages in the woodwork (and stonework) that have been left by their makers.
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