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Serial #003
Clear from Denver, the bathtub griffin claw feet were part of a load of “gift” cast iron pieces and parts. They hung on my hardware wall for over a year. Too strange a shape to use, and too hard to mount on anything but a bathtub.
Then, from a friend who lives south of us across the Canadian River and fourteen cattle guards from town, came the ball and claw table legs and old lamp finial. All four legs and unbroken as well.
About that same time I happened on a load of gumwood in Canadian, Texas, that had been stored over forty years. Considered a substandard wood, no one else wanted the gum.
Months later while salvaging the Dave Appel house in Lipscomb County, Texas, ceiling beadboards with the original dark milk stain were discovered under layers of wallpaper and printed chicken feed sack material. On The Way To Kingdom Come was on its way.
Complete with hail dents, aluminum-painted tin from a shed on Sand Creek Ranch became “roof” and door panels for the dresser. And carriage bolts now serve as door and drawer pulls.