Lovely Old {mid 1800's} Rope Bed...

I think it is created out of Maple... And is truly a beautiful form... If it doesn't sell, I think I am going to restore the surface, back to the original, salmon color, it started out with, and put it in Justin's former bedroom... We are pretty good, at matching surface, and tho, many folks love this clean, slick country style, I think I would prefer old grungy salmon... I know.... I am a sick person.... There will be no image of the 'Big Daddy Cupboard'... The friends, I was teasing, with a horrible shot last night, just seeing the back, and small portion of the top, evidently saw enough, and called to confirm they would take it, before I had a chance to get a better image... In fact, they got me out of bed this morning, letting the phone ring and ring!!!!.... My, my... they are acting more like 'yours truly', every day... I can look through a key hole, and see only a corner of an old cupboard, and buy it... or not see an old cupboard at all, and buy it, sight unseen... I was at an auction one time, and they had pushed an old barn down, before the sale... I was standing beside the debris... some men walked up to me, and asked what I was looking at.... I said, I just know there is an old cupboard under the rubble... They laughed, and said they had helped clean out the barn, and there was nothing under the barn boards... I assured them, there was... I could feel it... I wanted to climb down, into the hole, but they wouldn't have it... Finally, the one man said, "where do you think this old cupboard is... I'll go dig, and show you, there is nothing there"... { I wouldn't leave my post...}... I pointed to the area, and he shimmied down... started throwing debris every which way... and sure enough, there it was... an old, old cupboard top.... That's all he managed to pull out, but, at least it was rescued... I told him to give it to the Auctioneer, and I'd bid on it... he said, I should just take it... It wouldn't have been saved, if I hadn't been so insistant.... I still have it... and love it... It's a 'Survivor'... Ah... Old Cupboards...