You're right, George, if I was trying to be completely accurate. I could certainly see such wear in the picture of the original. I ended up liking the shiny blueberry feet too much to ding them up/sand them back that much. There's more than you can see from this angle in real life, but I (perhaps perversely) consciously chose to leave the feet in better shape than the world likely would have. Mind you, no one would see mine and think for a second it was an antique. I was attracted to the asthetic qualities that the wear had brought o the original - the way the bare wood spots accentuated edges or invited one to put their feet on the rails and so forth. I was trying to recreate that moreso than trying to make it look authentically old.