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07/25/2011

The Empire Chest Has Been Sold

through the Etsy store.  I have been on the fence about selling that piece for quite some time.  I really love it, and it is a wonderful pre-Civil War piece, but I don't have a house big enough to really show it off, and I can't afford to have it restored.

As luck would have it, a lovely woman from North Carolina was interested in it.  She and her husband own the Layton House, a pre Civil War home that has a rich history including a cannonball impression in the basement floor!.  They are restoring the home and filling it with period pieces.  I was so happy to sell the chest to these kind and interesting folks because I know they will restore the chest, put it in the library, and love it forever!

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I think I hear the strains of Dixie now....

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