Handwritten notes left behind by previous owners on the underside of a dresser drawer written in 1948, 1951, 1956, 1961, and in 1982.
Tim Skelly was refinishing an old dresser he'd acquired at an auction when he discovered a series of old messages left by its previous owners. After connecting with one of them, Skelly has decided to keep the conversation going.Message in a bureau: Handwritten notes left behind by previous owners cover the underside of a small dresser drawer. They were inscribed in 1948, 1951, 1956, 1961 and 1982.
"I was pulling out the drawers of this very odd piece of furniture, I flipped it around to start sanding and saw this handwriting on the bottom," Skelly said. "It's kind of like one of those little treasure hunts. It's so interesting. They're all relatively personal notes," Skelly said. The man who wrote the note signed it and inscribed an address in Britannia, five minutes away from where Skelly has lived for over 30 years.
"The fact that I had written that I hope somebody reads this in 40 years, and that's exactly what happened?"As far as Lueders can remember, the dresser either belonged to his in-laws or he bought it at a flea market. He, too, has a knack for refinishing old furniture and was in the process of fixing up the dresser when he came across the notes left by its previous owners.
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