imagine moving into a home with a wall that had been hand-painted with lines from homer’s odyssey, book vii (alexander pope’s translation).  you wouldn’t dare paint over it, would you?  but if it was a little dusty and faded, and the wood was very dry, you might use some murphy’s oil soap to clean it, and some myland’s pigmented wax to restore the color and sheen.  and you’d have a wonderful afternoon, reading while restoring something beautifully unique and, well, classic.