I Am Happy Today Because . . .

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Doc Creed

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I am happy because I just got this really great old bookcase for my SK collection! I think it may have been an old doorway from India or the middle east somewhere which someone reclaimed and built the case around it...any thoughts from anyone on age of the carvings would be appreciated. It's heavy there's no doubt in that, it took four of us to get it in the house. Anyway, sometimes things just come along and speak to you, as did this with myself...I had a perfectly fine oak bookcase but saw this and felt like I just had to have it!
Looks like something from Game of Thrones, where'd you find it?
 

morgan

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I am happy because I just got this really great old bookcase for my SK collection! I think it may have been an old doorway from India or the middle east somewhere which someone reclaimed and built the case around it...any thoughts from anyone on age of the carvings would be appreciated. It's heavy there's no doubt in that, it took four of us to get it in the house. Anyway, sometimes things just come along and speak to you, as did this with myself...I had a perfectly fine oak bookcase but saw this and felt like I just had to have it!
That is absolutely gorgeous - perfect for your King collection!
 

17021jude

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Looks like something from Game of Thrones, where'd you find it?
I bought it from a man who buys old furniture, I've bought some stuff from him before. He said a couple were building a million dollar house and foreclosed on it and they sold the contents of their storage unit (I'm guessing the storage unit was full of stuff for the new house) and this was in the storage unit. He said he'd never seen anything like it before, of course we're a bunch of flat-landers out here and I hadn't seen anything like it either. He was asking $300 for it and my husband who is versed in getting the best price for anything talked him down to $260.
 

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I bought it from a man who buys old furniture, I've bought some stuff from him before. He said a couple were building a million dollar house and foreclosed on it and they sold the contents of their storage unit (I'm guessing the storage unit was full of stuff for the new house) and this was in the storage unit. He said he'd never seen anything like it before, of course we're a bunch of flat-landers out here and I hadn't seen anything like it either. He was asking $300 for it and my husband who is versed in getting the best price for anything talked him down to $260.
That's a steal!! Good for you! Post again, when it's full of SK books! ;-D
 

Doc Creed

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I bought it from a man who buys old furniture, I've bought some stuff from him before. He said a couple were building a million dollar house and foreclosed on it and they sold the contents of their storage unit (I'm guessing the storage unit was full of stuff for the new house) and this was in the storage unit. He said he'd never seen anything like it before, of course we're a bunch of flat-landers out here and I hadn't seen anything like it either. He was asking $300 for it and my husband who is versed in getting the best price for anything talked him down to $260.
Wow, great deal. It's a handsome piece of furniture. I would think its value is between three and five thousand dollars. I wonder. If you ever find out let us know. Congratulations!
 

not_nadine

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I am happy today because I was on the phone with my friend. We have been friends since before first grade. Friend does not do justice. Family.

Laughed so hard that I screamed laugh. My stomach hurt. Doubled over on a phone call. Her too.
We had to catch breath. I love her.
We sang on the phone in the middle of conversation. Cheesy songs. I took the high part.

She talked me out of getting Fred the parrot. With much hilarity. And wisdom. She knows me.
 
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