Any antique'ers?

dartfreak75 said

That is really cool tho. Antique furniture just has a story. Sitting in a 100+ year old chair where your ancestors sat.... thats just amazing. Am I weird? Lol

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Not at all. We have some furniture that was obtained from George Washington at Valley Forge. An ancestor of my wife delivered a load of corn to the troops there and they only way the Continental army had to pay was with furniture taken from George Washington’s headquarters. We inherited that very dining table and chairs that the General himself one sat in to take meals.

It now sits in our dinning room. Try sitting at that table and not feel the history flowing through you!

We tried to donate it to the Valley Forge museum and they confirmed it with the Quartermaster records. They told us to keep in in our family and enjoy it as all of the original furniture remaining from then was stored in the vault in Princeton and would never be on display. Everything at the museum is a replica. The real ones are considered to be National treasures.

It is now a family treasure to be kept and cared for forever.