I purchased this antique writing desk through a local estate auction yesterday. The bidding was frenzied in the last hour but I managed to snipe it away. I will pick up the desk and chair tomorrow and I paid $420 for both pieces.
What period is this desk? Victorian?, Edwardian? Georgian? Did I...
My wife, my friend, my detecting partner, my rock, Sharee passed away on August 20th after a horrific bout of metastatic brain cancer.
I will not heal from this anytime soon. So many mistakes were made with her 'treatment'. Her very first chemotherapy treatment on June 3rd was canceled because...
She is in hospice care in an assisted living cottage that costs $11,000 per month. I had to do battle with the hospice team, the hospitalist, her case worker and Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield in order to convince them that she had 100% coverage for residential hospice care. After three weeks and...
She requires 24hr care. In-home hospice care only covers two hours per day and only for three days per week. She is being well cared for at an assisted living center that has a cottage environment.
Financially, things are great. We've made some improvements to the property such as a new Trane furnace, and a Culligan water softener. We had a manual transfer switch installed in the basement for the WEN 11,000 watt dual-fuel generator. Several weeks ago we had a monster storm that knocked...
I dislike how the fee structures have changed. Used to be most of the fees were charged on the front end so we didn't see unscrupulous sellers listing a common item with a price tag many thousands of dollars over its true value. Only gotta sell one I guess.
Egyption Revival is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt and Admiral Nelson's defeat of the French Navy at the Battle of the Nile in 1798.
The Egyptian revival period did not begin with the discovery of King Tuts...