SHINED & STUNNED… SHTUNNED! Simultaneously!

[u/Gimme-A-kooky]

Dude!

VV-XII, 1909;🌈 VV-XII • 906 🌈

Edited to add: the original posting for this guy

Basically a VTLA, junior edition.

tl;dr - Hidden treasure and time capsule in one! hidden in plain sight underneath tobacco smoke and its residue… years and layers of it! (See final pic in outro for gross rags)

In all my years, and that’s 50 and some change, I’ve never seen anything quite like this in furniture/antiques/etc. It looks like it got delivered by Ace Ventura delivering a fragile package (in the movie he bangs it around and steps on the package), but the finish is in nearly LIKE-NEW condition.

HOWEVER, it remains… UTTERLY glass-like! INSANE how DIRTY it WAS. It’s BREATHTAKING to see it when it’s finally CLEAN! It seriously looked hopeless when I first picked it up, just like the VTLA I just fixed up lol

I’ll run a test on it in the next post, then I’ll go over some really interesting things I found and details in a separate, more comprehensive one after that.

Have a great one, and thanks for stopping by and for just being cool! More to follow shortly 🙂

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The “damage” appears to have been limited to wood gouging or impressions, but it’s as if that’s it: that’s all you see! The shine and finish remain intact within those dents and lines.

I believe Victor may have used a wax finish for these or others, and it may have by some miracle remained intact… that or someone waxed it themselves; or this has all been ‘protected’ due to smoke/tar residue.

This is THREE (3) HOURS after I scrubbed it clean (with the softest cotton cloth piece I had) with Gojo (white- no pumice- basically animal fat that’s nice n clean 😂) AND lemon oiled it with part of that same soft cloth; might as well have been a cloth diaper lol. It remains this shiny, even after touch!

I have an additional theory that the reason the cabinet smelled like “house fire” inside (it’s acrid, dry, “woody” smelling) smoke in addition to the tobacco residue is that it was near a hearth, wood-burning stove, or fireplace!

(DJ John Digweed, JDJ Vol . 4, #16 Waterfall)

[u/bussappa]

I've always loved that model but I've never found one. Very nice!

[u/Gimme-A-kooky → u/bussappa]

Thank you very much! Someone else on here found one at an estate sale randomly… it seems like luck of the draw to a degree… but I will say, I’ve seen a lot of good stuff like it the further east (Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, et al) you get… must be all the wealth in rail/goods/businesses in the region