[GreenKeys] model 14 and 2B questions

[Jim Haynes]

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.