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Me Musing .
. . August
26, 2009
This is tooooo
incredible not to tell you!
This morning
before leaving to work at the Cottage I opened my emails and found
sooooooooo many of you exclaiming over the wood floor Eb is laying
AND the wonderful chair I found yesterday at the used store here
in town.
I backtrack
only to tell you that before walking downtown yesterday to pick
up a few things at the hardware and get the mail, my left palm began
to itch. I smiled, as Grandma used to say: "If your right palm
itches, you'll meet someone; if your left palm itches, you'll get
money".
Money, of course,
is a loose term, as sometimes it is not in cash, but in other ways
. . . like this morning's email!
My artist friend,
Iona, in Virginia Beach, VA. wrote and said (because she used to
deal in antiques) she couldn't help herself, but had to google 'bentwood
armchairs' to see if she could find anything. She sent me a link
from ebay that looked just like my chair!
Since it's
probably not ethical to print the photo on their auction, just use
this google link
and cut and paste this:
Thonet
J&J Kohn Mundus Carved Bentwood Side Arm Chair
then
click on Google Search. The first entry that should come up will
be the ebay one. Click on it and see the photos!
Well, as you
can imagine, I spent awhile on the computer before heading off to
the Cottage to work! When we recovered the chair I noticed on the
bottom of the seat that there had been two labels there.
I looked again
and one was still intact . . . just so dark that it was difficult
to make out anything at first.
In the sunlight,
words began to appear on the label!!!!!!!!!!
THONIN
_______ BROS. INC
Salesroom: One Park Ave., NY
Factories: Long Island NY ______esville____
Well,
as you can imagine THAT 'set me right up in the buggy' (as Grandma
also used to say!!!!!!)
Eb
and I looked at each other and both at the same time smiled and
said, "We're just like the people on Antiques Road Show"!
Whenever
we watch that show and see the prices of things we always say to
each other: 'how come you never had anything like that"???
NOW
WE DO!!!!!!!!!
And
I wouldn't trade it for $999!
Until
soon,
Che'usa
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