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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9743615, member: 36"]I grew up with lots of my dad's family's leftovers. When my parents married and moved to CT, my grandmother came along - lock stock and barrel. I still have the love seat and chairs she bought when she and my grandfather built their house. Tail end of the arts and crafts style, but solid oak and probably cheap. We took out the dusty nastiness in the springs but left those and the leather alone. Recovered in white fabric (why?! oh why WHITE?). Victorian furniture too of no great greatness, and worth zilch now. </p><p><br /></p><p>Actually, come to it, anything grandma liked is pretty much guarenteed to be worth zero these days. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/biggrin.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":D" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":depressed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":depressed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie40" alt=":depressed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I do still have her bakelite necklace, but anything else we inherited was ...nahhhh.(LOL) Even my late dad's toy trains turned out to be not so much; the bottom fell out right before he died and Mom sold them all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9743615, member: 36"]I grew up with lots of my dad's family's leftovers. When my parents married and moved to CT, my grandmother came along - lock stock and barrel. I still have the love seat and chairs she bought when she and my grandfather built their house. Tail end of the arts and crafts style, but solid oak and probably cheap. We took out the dusty nastiness in the springs but left those and the leather alone. Recovered in white fabric (why?! oh why WHITE?). Victorian furniture too of no great greatness, and worth zilch now. Actually, come to it, anything grandma liked is pretty much guarenteed to be worth zero these days. :D:D:depressed::depressed::depressed: I do still have her bakelite necklace, but anything else we inherited was ...nahhhh.(LOL) Even my late dad's toy trains turned out to be not so much; the bottom fell out right before he died and Mom sold them all.[/QUOTE]
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