Petrified wax?! Yech. That's right up there with the ten-layers-of-wallpaper-two-coats-of-paint-and-another seven-layers-of-wallpaper I once helped a friend strip. Thankfully, it was a breakfast room, and so just barely large enough to swing a cat, and luckily, a wallpaper steamer was invovled.

Petrified wax. Narsty!