Antique Chair & Fresh Eggs 25¢ sign

Thanksgiving Best Wishes
to my American Blogging Friends 

There is a bit of reminiscing with this project (and a couple of links to relevant older posts).


The antique (and repaired) child sized chair has been moved around our house for 15+ years. I love the hand work seen in this small chair (leg sizes not quite identical, inscribed areas not quite the same, wonderful curved piece holding the top of the spindles, colour seems to be oxblood red. I think there was white paint in its past too.

Years ago I filled in all the cracks with carpenter's putty (dry powder/mixed with water). That solved the seat split issue and it has stayed that way ever since.

I wanted to do as little as possible to this chair so the only changes have been experimenting with what type of color could be used to cover the putty filler to make it blend in somewhat.

Stain didn't make any difference so I tried chalk-like paint. I finger painted only the putty areas, first using a damp paper towel to moisten the area and then finger painting the Sedona Red, wiped back, used Beckley Coal and wiped back. I like the way the inscribed curved line on the chair is now visible.

The small areas of thin paint did tone down the putty colour and I decided to not make any other changes.

Hand applied hemp oil and then wiped the chair dry again a clean rag.

When I was in my 20's I found a very vintage Suzy doll (closing eyes and a mama voice box)- and for some reason added a mohair dark brown wig. 

This dolly was a replacement for the Suzy I remember burying when I was very young (we were moving and for some reason...) so Suzy has the honour of sitting on the chair along with three very old and not so old dolly blankets and quilts. 

My sister Gail made the blue and white quilt. I had Suzy sit on primary school chairs in an earlier post.

Since this post has antique and very old favourite items I added a "Fresh Eggs 25¢"  sign - I have never seen eggs at that price.

Fresh Eggs sign on chair 
before I toned down the putty. 

 

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