My New to me Cedar Chest

I finally got around to polishing my cedar chest with lemon oil. I just love looking at it. I was looking around online at craigslist and thinking to myself that I'd always wanted a cedar chest. I saw one in a "moving sale". The picture online wasn't all that impressive but I wanted to go see it anyway. The minute I saw it, I knew I wanted it and it had the LANE burn mark on the lid.

She had been using it as a toy chest with her child and it was covered with colored chalk on the inside. It was pretty and looked like it was old. A few nicks, scratches, missing lock and a couple of screws but it's sturdy and solid, only one loose board on the top. I got it for the cash I had in my pocket book : ). I didn't find out until later looking at the "moth free" certification that it was from 1927.

I am pretty sure that I lowered the value when I drilled a new hole and put an additional screw in to hold down the loose top board but the heck with it (you can see in the picture the loose board on top makes it look like there's a crack down the middle).

I'm not like I got it for a re-sale anyway. I did use a brass screw and got it to look as close to the original as possible. I spent several hours looking for ones that matched. I've never seen one like this before and I love it. I just need to rub the inside with a little fine grain sand paper to bring out the cedar smell.

So It's finally polished and shiny and ready for the blankets as I pull them off the bed. Love, Love, Love it. Thankfully it wasn't posted by a psycho who would kill me and stuff me in it but I took Frank with me just in case. Nothing like 100 lbs of American Bulldog for "security". No-one had to know that he couldn't even walk around the block at the time.