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Serial #0204 & 0205

Wild Man End Tables 

According to the stories about Charlie Lynch of Lipscomb, Texas, the bright red mopboards salvaged from his old house say a lot about his personality. With a stiff shock of hair, bushy eyebrows, and a perpetual scowl, Charlie had the Lipscomb kids convinced he was the wild man. They gave his house a wide berth.

Charlie and his cronies spent most afternoons at Charlie’s place playing the card game “pitch.” The games would last for several hours until Charlie would become convinced that cheating had occurred and he was just going to have to get his gun and “shoot somebody.” The red mopboards had no noticeable bullet holes and the old timers cannot recall Charlie actually firing his gun.

For the Wild Man End Tables the red boards are combined with brown window trim from an old house on Commission Creek in Lipscomb County, Texas. The house has been vacant for forty-five years. Trees now taller than the house grow where the front porch stood. A few clothes still hang in a downstairs closet. Upstairs, ceiling bead boards hang in a loose maze of arcs and droops, and the floor, more often than not, breaks through with dry rot.

Sections of woven security fencing made by the Fort Worth Fence Company are used as door panels. Door and drawer pulls are oil field tank hatch bolts.