HIDDEN SECRETS

 

I had two antique dressers that were in storage several years. Both needed painting and a few other things to bring out the beauty of these old treasures.  They were moved to my garage to be cleaned and repainted.  The time came that I needed to get to work on them as the painters who were repainting the inside of my house got a little bit ahead of me.  So the project began.  The drawers were removed and the paint was going on.  I decided to go ahead and paint the outside of the dressers.  I lifted one of them up by the corner to put some plastic underneath so I would not get too much paint on the garage floor. This dresser is not pictured.  It had three mirrors, a large one in the center and two side mirrors that are on hinges and can be angled.  Lo and behold the whole dresser fell over and the big mirror was shattered while one of the side mirrors fell out but was not broken and glass was all over the garage.  My husband gladly had a solution to the project.  Just haul both of the dressers off to the dump.  He is not too fond of old things anyway.  I was certainly not in favor of getting rid of them.

My solution was to go to the glass company and inquire as to whether or not new mirrors could be cut for both dressers.  The mirror in the dresser pictured was not broken but had several very ugly spots on it especially around the edges.  I had gotten by for several years using artificial flowers to cover the bad spots.  I thought maybe I might be able to get new mirrors if there were two projects for them to work on. The glass company said they could consider doing the mirrors and came to the house to measure. 

The glass man decided to just take the mirrors off the dressers and take them in to his shop to get the right measurements on both.  When he took the big round mirror off the dresser pictured there was a tiny picture of a little girl that had somehow gotten behind the mirror.

My daughter had bought the dresser at a garage sale in Shreveport, Louisiana about thirty years ago.  When she tired of it she gave it to me.  The picture is real tiny, at 1 1/2 by 2 1/4 inches in size. 

We have no idea who this adorable little girl is but she surely was cute and must have been greatly loved by whomever had owned the dresser many years ago.  Would love to know who she is.

 

By the way, both dressers have new mirrors and are relocated in bedrooms but still do not have that fresh coat of paint as yet.  Will get to that some day. 

 

You Never Know What You Will Find in Old Furniture !