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Antiques! => Antique Questions Forum => Topic started by: indica on November 09, 2012, 01:49:50 PM
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Hi everyone I'm new here and this is my first post.. I was wondering if anyone could give me any info on this chest. I have had it for about 10yrs and dont know anything about it, other then I found it in my great aunts basement after she passed away. I tried to post pics but i got an error every time so I did it this way sorry.
http://iindica211.webs.com/chest.jpg (http://iindica211.webs.com/chest.jpg)
http://iindica211.webs.com/chest1.jpg (http://iindica211.webs.com/chest1.jpg)
http://iindica211.webs.com/chest2.jpg (http://iindica211.webs.com/chest2.jpg)
http://iindica211.webs.com/chest3.jpg (http://iindica211.webs.com/chest3.jpg)
http://iindica211.webs.com/chest4.jpg (http://iindica211.webs.com/chest4.jpg)
Thanks for looking.
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can you give us the dimensions...if i had found this i,would have been expecting it to be full of gold doubloons,or pieces of eight,....it looks ancient...as for age....a 100 + years perhaps....value... very little to anyone else....but to you...priceless
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Yea it looks really cool when I found it I took it to my granny instantly and was like can I have this, to my surprise she said yes.. Know what I know now I would have got a lot more from that house. The woman had a great history and was even miss Kentucky at one time and had her basement packed from floor to ceiling with cool stuff.
The chest is 7 1/2" tall 1' long and 7 1/2" wide..
I found the coolest looking vase there that I wish to this day I never sold. :(
It looked hand made like from clay and hand painted with a swastika stamped on the bottom of it. I took it to a local antique auction show and no one could tell me what it was. I had one guy say he didnt have a clue, then he chased me down about an hr later, stating he still didnt know what it was but gave me a $100 dollar bill for it. Being young dumb with a baby on the way I said sure, I have never been able to find out what it was. The closet thing I came up with was it might have been a urn instead.
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Don,t beat yourself up about wishing you,d never sold this "urn"...we,ve all been there...at the time..it probably seemed like the right thing to do...and i have no doubt..you put the $100 to good use...but what i find most intriguing, is it had a swastika on the base...we,ve had a few discussions lately about this symbol...and contrary to what most people think of this symbol...its a good symbol....now back to this small chest...being the size it is..its most likely been used in the past for personal papers...birth certificates,family pictures...or items of that nature...as to the condition...well, i suppose we can call this..."the ultimate shabby-chic"...
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Pics are so dark I couldn`t see it !! Try resizing the pics to about 1500kb and try to post them here !! There is a size limit on this site !!
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Thanks bigwull it sure did :).
Mart I took them with my phone. I'lll get my camera and try to take some better pics and post them. ;D
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Thanks !!
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I think its time you were getting broadband...can,t you get it via freesat...or something similar...can you see these pics....you can open them up
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Your small chest would probably be called a doll trunk in the Jenny Lind style. In good condition they bring good money.
http://www.rubylane.com/item/465919-RL-0010-06182728/Early-Antique-Miniature-Jenny-Lind (http://www.rubylane.com/item/465919-RL-0010-06182728/Early-Antique-Miniature-Jenny-Lind)
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Still dark !! Opening is not the problem,, time it takes to download is !! We are in the boonies and cost for installation of broadband is close to a grand !! I just can`t justify the cost for something for me to play with !! If I used it to make a living or something wouldn`t be bad !! But its just something for me to piddle with !!
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Thank you Rauville, I wonder how old this thing is that chest looks cool..
Here mart hope these look better for you.
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I'd guess 2nd half of the 19th century, no idea about value in this condition.