Hunt #1- Complete

A few weeks ago I posted about my hunt for vintage type case drawers. While in New York, I found not one, not two, but three of them! After looking around online, I thought I could find one for around $40. Not true in upstate NY antique stores! All of them were super cheap (one was even free), so I got all three for waaay under forty dollars. Whoop whoop!

(two of the three, the third was given to me right before I left NY)

One of the three drawers wasn't as old as the others so I started with this one first for my jewelry project.
Ta da! I love it. I held up the earrings with small pieces of cork that I cut to fit into the openings. Instead of hanging the drawer, I leaned it on my white dresser which is actually quite stable. It's not completely done, but I love it. I think it adds a nice touch to our bare bedroom. I'm not sure what I will do with the other two yet, or what I will fill them with. If you have any ideas, feel free to comment.

-Jewel

Hunt #1

I'm beginning to feel my nesting wings again and have been on this nifty site for hours now. I have so many ideas for our new place on how to decorate it and what I want to buy, but I must be careful not to go to overboard. Right now I'm on an old wood vintage vibe. In the Smith's house, I found the perfect item to begin my hunt for decorative items: a vintage type case drawer.

Mrs Smith's Drawer

These drawers were used to hold movable type pieces for use in printing presses. Like this one:

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Some people use them now as wall displays because all the little sections can hold souvenirs, knick knacks, etc.

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Neat piece of trivia I found while researching the drawers: We call our capitalized letters uppercase and our small letters lowercase because of their location in the printing press drawers. The capitalized letters were in the upper drawers and in the lower drawers were the small letter presses. Neat right?

Happy hunting for your own treasures!

-Jewel