I hear you about the over-paint project. Removal of over-paint while leaving the original finish is tricky. If you're really lucky, 0000 steel wool and some paint thinner will get you back to original, or even a little Citri-Strip on a rag. If you're unlucky, it's old school paint stripper, xylene, MEK, or something similarly nasty that is needed to remove the paint. There's also oven cleaner and an egg timer, but oven cleaner is nasty stuff in its own right.
The one plus is that if the original finish was not sanded prior to over-painting, and if the over-paint comes off reasonably well, the original maroon might be in good shape underneath. The maroon seems to oxidize to a brown-ish color, and sometimes to a black cherry type color. If the maroon was sealed away under over-paint and you can get the over-paint off, you might be looking at decent paint underneath. The job of removing the over-paint still kind of stinks though.