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<p>[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 145808, member: 37"]My Grandmother passed away in 1969 and my grandfather was no longer fit to live on his own in the family home. It was a 16 room late 19th century Queen Anne Victorian with most of the original furnishings from my great grandparents still intact. Despite my mom and her 2 siblings taking quite a bit, there was still plenty left over for a huge estate auction. The day of the sale, I asked if I could keep the old Oliver typewriter like this one here....</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/oliver.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was 14 at the time and still have it. </p><p><br /></p><p>After the sale, there was an old walnut spool bed in pieces in the garage that did not sell. I also brought those pieces home and began my first refinishing project. Once I got it stripped, I realized that all the pieces were not there to reassemble. I still have this unfinished bed and have since found some appropriate pieces to finish the project started so long ago. Unfortunately, life is more hectic than when I was 14 and this project is not a priority. I plan to finish it before I am done on this Earth. It will need to become a priority at some point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since my parent's passing, I have inherited other pieces from the family home. They are better pieces than these two things but I have not had them nearly as long. Attending my grandparent's estate auction first got me interested in antiques and I never looked back. By the time I was 18, I was collecting and selling to further my collection. I don't have any other antiques left from those early days but have kept all the family pieces. </p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, I started collecting other things even earlier than antiques. I still have my rock and mineral collection that I started when I was about 8 or 9. Like with the antiques, a couple of these pieces are things my Grandfather collected when he was a teenager.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 145808, member: 37"]My Grandmother passed away in 1969 and my grandfather was no longer fit to live on his own in the family home. It was a 16 room late 19th century Queen Anne Victorian with most of the original furnishings from my great grandparents still intact. Despite my mom and her 2 siblings taking quite a bit, there was still plenty left over for a huge estate auction. The day of the sale, I asked if I could keep the old Oliver typewriter like this one here.... [IMG]http://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/oliver.jpg[/IMG] I was 14 at the time and still have it. After the sale, there was an old walnut spool bed in pieces in the garage that did not sell. I also brought those pieces home and began my first refinishing project. Once I got it stripped, I realized that all the pieces were not there to reassemble. I still have this unfinished bed and have since found some appropriate pieces to finish the project started so long ago. Unfortunately, life is more hectic than when I was 14 and this project is not a priority. I plan to finish it before I am done on this Earth. It will need to become a priority at some point. Since my parent's passing, I have inherited other pieces from the family home. They are better pieces than these two things but I have not had them nearly as long. Attending my grandparent's estate auction first got me interested in antiques and I never looked back. By the time I was 18, I was collecting and selling to further my collection. I don't have any other antiques left from those early days but have kept all the family pieces. As an aside, I started collecting other things even earlier than antiques. I still have my rock and mineral collection that I started when I was about 8 or 9. Like with the antiques, a couple of these pieces are things my Grandfather collected when he was a teenager.[/QUOTE]
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