Thanks for the stoke!
I am based in New England (Northeast US).
As to the finish, I received these a little roughed up and very dry in patches, with white paint scuffs from possibly bumping white painted walls, general light stains, and small scratches, etc. The first step was to deep clean the veneer, so I got the wood even dryer using Isopropyl Alcohol on mild (fine) abrasive 3m (non-metal) refinishing pads, with the grain. That got off the white marks and evened up the tone to just super dry all over - but evenly so. Then using white cotton cloths I padded on Tung Oil finish with the grain to re-moisturize and seal the grain. Several coats were applied with one full day of drying between coats. For the very last step I used a tinted wax pencil on the few deeper marks that remained, and then buffed those mends.
They are not consecutive serial numbers so they are not mirror matched grain veneer, but close enough and certainly very presentable now. The drivers are original, and the original crossovers were fully functional, and just in need of re-capping due to age. Jerry at Falcon Acoustics in the UK was AWESOME to deal with on the caps, and they came very fast! Having been deep inside I can state that these are very well made speakers, and actually designed to be serviced!
They are sitting on sturdy 24 inch steel and cast iron based stands, which I think is about the right height. I notice now in the background of where I took the picture they are temporarily placed in front of my Stainless Steel Conical Fermenter I use for brewing wine...
This CM2 model is particularly interesting to me because I have had a long satisfying experience with "2 way 8 speakers" as a general a class of speaker (2 way speakers using an 8 inch woofer and a tweeter crossed over beyond 2.5 KHz). These actually use a 3 KHz phase coherent crossover and more obviously they use an in-line physical arrangement of the two drivers. They do image very well. What is unusual about the CM2 is the resistive aperiodic loading of the woofer, versus a transmission line design, a tuned port design or a sealed acoustic suspension design. They do have very satisfying bass for a speaker that is only 18 inches tall.