ADJUSTMENTS - ORNAMENTS - CHANGES OF NATIONALITY In most cases the alterations to antique furnishings are mainly caused to make them suitable to modern houses.This alterations can be reversible ( for example some vases turned into light-points, lamp-shades added to candlesticks, picture-frames utilized for large mirrors) or other times they are irreversible and made very skilfully so that in a couple of centuries would be pieces of antique trade. As an exemple we can cite a small table with the central leg of 77cm height turned into a sofa table by cutting the central leg up to 60-62 cm; in the old days sofa tables were not used, except for the Far East and Portugal. Consider that the bookshelf for a flat, as it is planned nowadays, appeared from the end of XVIIth. century, in well-to-do and families. A warning, less important but useful, is the changing of origin furniture are subjected to be commercially appreciated. Solid walnut-wood cupboards coming from Sweden or from northern France that regularly change their origin and they then become from Veneto, or solid walnut-wood or slabbed chests from Portugal that are defined as coming from Lombardia, Liguria or from Naples. These "baptisms" or changes are always existed and they are still frequent.