And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
But.......we've got an old fashioned roll top desk that we had commissioned back a million years ago when I was in the Air Force stationed in the Philippines. Philippine Narra wood. All the drawers are hand-cut dove tails. I am biased, but I think that it is a beautiful, classic piece of furniture. Maybe not as beautiful and classic as this fly-tying desk (the setting here adds to the appeal too), but still.
The lovely Mrs. azlib would like to get rid of it. She believes, and she's right about this, that it isn't very functional any longer....we bought this thing way before anyone had a laptop or computer monitor on a desk...and she'd like to use the space that it occupies for other purposes.
And if I were to place it up for sale, I might, maybe, perhaps, be able to get $200 for it. A hundred dollars is more likely, although even that would be a struggle. Nobody wants classic or old-fashioned anymore. They'd much rather assemble something that they found at Ikea.
So what are you going to do with it? I'm in a similar situation with a very large antique dining hutch. It had been taking up space in our dining room since the mid 80's and 2 years ago my wife insisted I take it to my workshop, where still sits. I want my real estate back cause, like I said, it is large. 5' wide x 9' tall and the top separates from the bottom which is how it sits currently in the workshop that only has an 8' ceiling. I've talked to a few friends and nobody wants it nor have any ideas on what to do with it. I shudder to think I'll have to take the chainsaw to it. 40 years ago we paid almost $1k for it.
Was in similar situation with beautiful complete solid cherry dinning room set, plus cherry tables, secretary desk with hutch, round glass cherry curio cabinet full of Hummel Figurines, a don't go in there living room living room unless there's company (my friends were not considered company, and I agreed and they agreed). We could not sell (no one wanted to buy) had to virtually give things away. Relatives took very little the rest went for pennies. I would of have saved time and aggravation if I would have burned the lot. Plus would have had fun burning it all with my friends, that weren't really welcome there (we're kink of outdoor guys) drinking a few beers and bourbon smoking cigars. Then we moved and didn't need all that stuff and had to buy new stuff.
Dunno what we're going to do with it. She keeps threatening to sell it, which really means that I'm going to be the one to sell it, cuz the last time she tried to sell something on Facebook Marketplace, all she got were creeps. Maybe that'll happen and maybe it won't. Inaction is often an action in itself, and one possibility is that it'll be here when she and I kick our respective buckets and our kids will have to deal with it, cursing us all the way.
And since we've opened up this topic, this isn't the only unwanted-but-too-nice-to-get-rid-of furniture that we've got. As I was getting out of the AF, we flew to Hong Kong and at what was then the Navy Exchange there, we bought an 8 place Rosewood dining room set very, very similar to this one (our set has 2 leaves). Ours includes a matching hutch and we later bought 2 complementing corner hutches. Beautiful. Exquisite. Today, this stuff is not much more than pretty firewood. That's not the end of our Chinese Rosewood. We bought our bedroom set from the same place at the same time. She'd like that gone too.
Buying that rosewood furniture new today would probably run $40k. I'm guessing that that reseller linked above bought that set for maybe a grand and the sellers were glad to take it (sellers were likely the original buyer's kids, dumping crap that Mom and Dad left them). He'll have to carry it for a while but will probably pocket half of the $5k by the time it sells.
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ReplyDeleteLovely.
ReplyDeleteBut.......we've got an old fashioned roll top desk that we had commissioned back a million years ago when I was in the Air Force stationed in the Philippines. Philippine Narra wood. All the drawers are hand-cut dove tails. I am biased, but I think that it is a beautiful, classic piece of furniture. Maybe not as beautiful and classic as this fly-tying desk (the setting here adds to the appeal too), but still.
The lovely Mrs. azlib would like to get rid of it. She believes, and she's right about this, that it isn't very functional any longer....we bought this thing way before anyone had a laptop or computer monitor on a desk...and she'd like to use the space that it occupies for other purposes.
And if I were to place it up for sale, I might, maybe, perhaps, be able to get $200 for it. A hundred dollars is more likely, although even that would be a struggle. Nobody wants classic or old-fashioned anymore. They'd much rather assemble something that they found at Ikea.
azlibertarian
So what are you going to do with it?
DeleteI'm in a similar situation with a very large antique dining hutch. It had been taking up space in our dining room since the mid 80's and 2 years ago my wife insisted I take it to my workshop, where still sits. I want my real estate back cause, like I said, it is large. 5' wide x 9' tall and the top separates from the bottom which is how it sits currently in the workshop that only has an 8' ceiling. I've talked to a few friends and nobody wants it nor have any ideas on what to do with it. I shudder to think I'll have to take the chainsaw to it. 40 years ago we paid almost $1k for it.
Was in similar situation with beautiful complete solid cherry dinning room set, plus cherry tables, secretary desk with hutch, round glass cherry curio cabinet full of Hummel Figurines, a don't go in there living room living room unless there's company (my friends were not considered company, and I agreed and they agreed). We could not sell (no one wanted to buy) had to virtually give things away. Relatives took very little the rest went for pennies. I would of have saved time and aggravation if I would have burned the lot. Plus would have had fun burning it all with my friends, that weren't really welcome there (we're kink of outdoor guys) drinking a few beers and bourbon smoking cigars.
DeleteThen we moved and didn't need all that stuff and had to buy new stuff.
Dunno what we're going to do with it. She keeps threatening to sell it, which really means that I'm going to be the one to sell it, cuz the last time she tried to sell something on Facebook Marketplace, all she got were creeps. Maybe that'll happen and maybe it won't. Inaction is often an action in itself, and one possibility is that it'll be here when she and I kick our respective buckets and our kids will have to deal with it, cursing us all the way.
DeleteAnd since we've opened up this topic, this isn't the only unwanted-but-too-nice-to-get-rid-of furniture that we've got. As I was getting out of the AF, we flew to Hong Kong and at what was then the Navy Exchange there, we bought an 8 place Rosewood dining room set very, very similar to this one (our set has 2 leaves). Ours includes a matching hutch and we later bought 2 complementing corner hutches. Beautiful. Exquisite. Today, this stuff is not much more than pretty firewood. That's not the end of our Chinese Rosewood. We bought our bedroom set from the same place at the same time. She'd like that gone too.
Buying that rosewood furniture new today would probably run $40k. I'm guessing that that reseller linked above bought that set for maybe a grand and the sellers were glad to take it (sellers were likely the original buyer's kids, dumping crap that Mom and Dad left them). He'll have to carry it for a while but will probably pocket half of the $5k by the time it sells.
azlibertarian
Wow. Very impressive. The Supreme Man Cave.
ReplyDeleteLove the wall art. Semper fidelis
ReplyDeleteWow, thats dedication.
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