Sunday, November 24, 2013

Surprise Table!!!










 Even with the new table/chairs and new little rocker.  That "Prohibition Table" stayed on our minds.  I wanted it!!!  The day I had " sit n sew" and Chuck went to the forest with his "hiking group", I decided to run to Hartselle and talk to the lady about the table.  I just knew she could come up with a better price for it and she did!  I asked her to please hold it until Saturday morning so I could get Chuck to look at it again.  Just to check it all out.  She was happy to do so.  Well, you guessed it!  We were there first thing on Saturday morning when she opened the shop and we bought the table.    The people who owned the shop said that is the only table they have ever seen like it and will probably never see another one.  Chuck got on line to research the table.  Come to find out, it's not called a " Prohibition Table" from the 1920s.  It's called a " Surprise Table" and they are from England in the early 1900's.  The two pictures that Chuck found on the Internet, the prices were over three times what we paid for it.  The wood on those were a lot more ornate than ours but we think ours might be worth twice of what we paid for it.  So be it.  I won't get rid of it for any price!  Like I said.  All this started because I wanted to put the leaf in the dining room table that we already had.  HA!  Ya just never know what is going to happen around here.  It's just a fun place to live!

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