Love these things! I imagine long voyages, and everything you own packed in the trunk. The top compartment holds your dressing table set (brush, mirror, comb, dusting powder) and perhaps some important documents. Another, lower tray holds your "delicates". Packed below, enough clothes, books, quilts, and keepsakes for a semester away at school, or a brand new life just away. Nostalgia for sale - $100 OBO
When Daddy and K.D. Brown handcrafted this desk more than 50 years ago, the air was probably blue with cigarette smoke and profanity. KD used colorful language - but he sweetly called his wife Roberta, "Mother." (I've since read that calling one's wife "Mother" can be a real intimacy killer.)
My mom painted the desk China Red and applied brass Chippendale handles. KD and Daddy put little fretwork in the corners at the legs to further the chinese chippendale theme. This was her desk where she ruled the universe, made lesson plans, made menus and schedules and shopping lists. For the longest time there was a bottle of India Ink in the middle drawer - how mysterious.
It has been repainted and repurposed as my wrapping paper desk. I will miss having a wrapping paper desk and will probably not give as many presents without it. The top of the desk lifts up on either side - revealing a deep well that is perfect for gift bags and tissue paper. Or for holding a huge arrangement of dried hydrangea. Or for stowing picnic items on a summer porch. Or you could just leave the tops down and rule the universe. $200 OBO
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