{"id":4474,"date":"2010-10-21T14:30:13","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T18:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2010-10-21T14:30:13","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T18:30:13","slug":"tarnished-and-treasured-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/?p=4474","title":{"rendered":"Tarnished and Treasured {Part 2}"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Hello!<\/p>\n

Where was I?\u00a0 Oh yes, in my last post I told you I’d fill you in on the treasure I took home!\u00a0 It’s funny because it was one of the very first things I saw when I went in to the antique\/salvage shop, Housewerks<\/a>.\u00a0 I was immediately drawn to something so humble but recognizably a\u00a0treasure.\u00a0 I just knew it would be too expensive though so I just moved on.\u00a0\u00a0 I later met\u00a0up with my husband after milling about separately (after all, he was slowed down with the baby!), and he told me that there was this great piece that I just had to see.\u00a0 I knew we had seen the same thing.\u00a0 When I went back upstairs to give it a second look, there was a buyer with her tape measure out giving it the once-over.\u00a0 It was one of those sweet pieces that go fast….an old chest taken right out of a 100 year old + drug store!\u00a0 Here it is, our chest from the James Drug Co…..<\/p>\n

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How many times have you found an antique and wondered where it came from, or who owned it?\u00a0 This was such a rare incidence that we were told exactly where this piece came from and a bit of its history.\u00a0 Recently, the James Drug Co. (also known as the James Pharmacy) building was bought so they moved right next door.\u00a0 During the move several fixtures were sold – fixtures that have been there most likely since the store opened in 1900.\u00a0 What caught my eye first are the amazing drawer pulls.\u00a0 Yes, they are covered in paint, but I can see the detailed beauty beneath the layers.\u00a0 And the pull-out counter used for mixing medicine.\u00a0\u00a0 There were old paper labels here and there in the drawers that stated “Poison”, or “Keep in a cool place”.\u00a0 \u00a0We were so lucky<\/strong> to fit this in the back of our SUV.\u00a0 There was not a 1\/2″ to spare…I was holding my breath when it came time to shut the back door.\u00a0 And driving home, my knees touched the dashboard.<\/p>\n

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My husband looked at me a bit strange (but just for\u00a0a moment) when I suggested we go and see the actual drug store where the chest came from.\u00a0 How many times can you go and see<\/em> the\u00a0location where your antique spent years and years??\u00a0 As it turns out, the James Drug Co. was close by in an up and coming section of Baltimore known as historic Federal Hill<\/a>.\u00a0 Federal Hill is steeped in Baltimore history, and happens to be where my brother proposed to his wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I plan to put my sweet old find in my future studio, but it will need some work first.\u00a0 I do know that I want to reclaim those amazing drawer pulls and remove the paint so you can actually see their beauty.\u00a0 I imagine it would be best to try and repaint the face of the\u00a0drawers (they are a peach color now) , this would be the least labor intensive.\u00a0\u00a0 Please tell me what you would do with these drawers and how you recommend going about it – I’d love to hear your thoughts, if you’re familiar with this sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Thanks for stopping by and paying me a visit!<\/p>\n

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Hello! Where was I?\u00a0 Oh yes, in my last post I told you I’d fill you in on the treasure I took home!\u00a0 It’s funny because it was one of the very first things I saw when I went in to the antique\/salvage shop, Housewerks.\u00a0 I was immediately drawn to something so humble but recognizably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-and-times","category-things-to-see"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sweetbeadstudio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}