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Friday, January 22
Sunday, January 10
vintage filing cabinet drawers
My picking buddy and I nipped into Studio Second Canal in Holyoke yesterday for their closing sale. Boy, what a day! We even got to explore Bruce's workspace, which involved stepping on crates and crawling through a window, which did not deter us one bit. This photo gives you just a small window into the treasures that were to behold (and does not even include the antique casket stand, which would make a killer coffee table in some hipster Soho loft):
Among my scores were these gorgeous pencil sharpeners (to add to my mom's collection) and the rubber stamp carousels which will soon hold test tubes and become bud vases:
But today, I'm here to discuss these gorgeous vintage filing cabinet drawers, the lot of which we split. I don't know the precise provenance, but based upon a little Googling, I suspect they lived in a newpaper office.
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| they even came numbered! |
As you know, it sometimes takes me years to figure out what I'm going to do with some of my finds. Take my lawn sweeper, for example:
This time, I immediately knew it would perfectly hold 4 rolls of toilet paper + reading material. Because I'm good like that.
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