10-25-2019, 12:01 PM
(10-25-2019, 10:27 AM)Mike Brubacher Wrote: ...snip...
We can put all the plastic bottles and glass jars we want in our special little garbage receptacles but the story behind this table is what I call recycling.
Mike,
Great story and provenance. I love it. So glad you are keeping it alive and useful.
I have a similar old table and chair set, but I don't think it goes back as far as yours. Came from my former wife's grandmother, so it is at least in the 1930s, I think.
I also have two pieces that were made by my great-grandfather (in Ohio), a student's rolltop desk and a cedar hope chest. I don't know exactly when they were made, but I'm pretty sure around 1900. The rolltop was made from walnut boards salvaged from an old barn. I don't know if that means the boards were part of the barn construction, or just something that was "in" the barn. The hope chest I do not have even that much information. It doesn't matter as these pieces mean a lot to me and I hope my daughter and granddaughter appreciate them once they become theirs.
Rick