If you do what we do long enough, eventually you’ll run into unexpected treasures. The real treasure isn’t their monetary value. It is being able to see them come back to life, or them assuming a new life.
Pictured are a couple of those treasures. On top is a 1915 Silvertone hand cranked phonograph. It was Sears and Roebuck’s answer to the Victrola. When we found it on Saturday, it was covered in dirt, and the speaker cover was in tatters. After a thorough cleaning, and a few refinishing shortcuts, it roared to life like the day it was new.
It is sitting on top of a fully functional antique parlor sewing machine; another find from another Saturday. Like so many things we find, they’ve found their way into our museum-like home, and there they will stay.
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