Antique large round top chest. Excellent condition for it's age. Some damage. Solid peice...makes excellent storage for quilts, gear, xmas items.... Questions, call Pam.
And it is a solid piece, it's true, though the colored panels bear the nicks and scratches of, perhaps, over a hundred years of use. How many generations of family has it served? Quietly keeping it's silent vigil over the items stored away within its depths and bearing the brunt of an casually uncaring world's battery. Each ding, scrape and scuff marks the passage of another year loyally guarding it's appointed charges from said abuse.
And yet it hasn't found its proper home, having been passed from one home to the next; perhaps even being inherited by one family or another. Still, it sits quietly waiting for the next person to come with their special items and to keep them safe.
Aw, I don't know--you're almost equating Maggie's protective worldview with that of the antique chest. You're giving it lifelike characteristics but I don't think it cares if it's keeping stuff safe or being fed into a woodstove....
ReplyDeleteI think I was shooting for how people sometimes just pass their posessions along much like other things in life, making them almost trivial. But you're right, it'd be just as happy storing things as keeping the family warm :)
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