Look out for furniture in lined woods and antique or paint-effect finishes.

Still selling well is the Victoria range with an antique finish.

If an accurate copy of an antique finish is required a certain amount of trial (and error) may be necessary.

Most metals can be plated in a shiny or antique finish.

Brass, for example, can be plated in copper, chrome or a variety of antique finishes.

By using gold, silver or aluminum leaf, she can create antique finishes.

The eight-inch-high shade at far left has an antique finish of aluminum leaf on a black ground, and costs $95.

Bookshelves with an antique finish are £165 to order.

Polishing, the final step, gave the shoes an antique finish, from which came the term bronzing.

The medal is circular, struck in bronze with an antique finish.