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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 264694, member: 5066&quot;]LOL, i hear you Estates! Me too! Let&#039;s see now, there&#039;s you, me and about 5 other people in the world that like this kind of furniture, most everyone else, not so much.</p><p>I see you are in Virginia, it has an early paint story to tell as well. In the 18th century, about 50 Pennsylvania german/dutch/swiss families immigrated down the &quot;old wagon trail&quot; from PA. to the Shenandoah valley in Virginia. Among them was </p><p>Johannes Spitler, who built blanket chests decorated with paint. He used all the traditional PA german decorating themes, tulips, hearts, birds, etc but put them together in a very unusual way, almost a modern art type way, a few of his chests below.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]83127[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]83128[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]83129[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]83130[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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