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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PflugLife, post: 395209, member: 8417&quot;]&quot;Hi, it might also help if you let people know how you&#039;d acquired it -- whether it&#039;s been in the family, from auction, whatever. Furniture people will be along, but closer shots of handles, etc., will be useful, too. Welcome to the group. There is heaps to learn here and that&#039;s for sure <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" />&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This was in my parents&#039; household in Houston, TX since I was kid, my sister used it all the way through high school. </p><p><br /></p><p>It wasn&#039;t passed down from anyone in our family, it was bought by my parents at some point. Dad says likely in New Orleans on Royal St. in the early 80&#039;s, around the time my older sister was born. They went there all the time. My mother knew every detail of every antique in her home, it&#039;s history, where she bought it, how much she paid for it, etc., but she passed away in 2016. I asked Dad for more details, but he just chuckled and said he usually couldn&#039;t remember a trip to New Orleans the week afterwards, let alone 35 years later. But if you know Royal St., you know there&#039;s a thousand antique shops on that tiny little street anyway so there&#039;s no way anyone could remember.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I came to have it when my wife and I bought our first house. Just a year earlier my parents retired and moved to the country and a smaller home, so Mom was looking to gift/sell/consign a lot of the larger pieces she had no sentimental attachment to. She knew my wife liked it, especially if we wound up having a daughter one day, so she gave it to us. Long story short, we had a little boy. So it&#039;s been in our guest room for years now.</p><p><br /></p><p>We&#039;re not sure what our plans for it are. We&#039;re redecorating so it felt as good a time as any to at least learn about it before deciding to keep it or not. I have an endless number of things in my home to remember my Mom by so I have no sentimental attachment to this piece, but it is beautiful.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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