REAL Antique KITCHEN Hanging SPICE CABINET – 8 Drawers

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I listed another spice cabinet a minute ago. (eBay Item # 360205916778 ) In the listing I had just mentioned loading a pig in a truck with a bunch of cats and a retired “lady of the evening.” I ran out of room telling the story, so I’ll finish it here . . . . gotta second?

As you can see, spice cabinets have stacked up on me. I’m sure there are at least six or eight more in the barn. I’ll be selling them one or two at a time.

This auction is for the one shown above. It is almost 17” tall, and it’s in nice, mellow condition. I’d just give it a little polish or wax and let it go at that. It’s a nice country look . . . That’s because that’s exactly what it is; Country as a plow mule.

Looks to me like it was for sale at one time many, many, many years ago – by someone who forgot how to spell “cabinet.”

So, as I said in the listing of the other spice cabinet, we had the pig loaded, the cats scatted away, back inside the barn, and me and old lady Scantland, a retired “country call girl” were walking up the hill toward her house. (“Call girl” isn’t a good term to use in her case. When she was in her prime and active there wasn’t but a couple phones in the entire county.)

Here at 341, I have two "Prime Directives:"
First: I never, under any circumstances, use a reserve, and everything starts at $9, sometimes even less. And, I never end auctions early or use BIN.
Second: I don't clean, repair, or otherwise monkey around with anything. I push enough dust aside to note any flaws, but if I discovered it in some dusty attic, you can look forward to a little dust on it when it gets to your house. If it has a flaw or a wart, I'll tell you about it.
So rest easy and have some fun. Why not place a little tiny bid right now so's you don't forget about it later.

When we got to her back steps she put her right foot on the first step then pushed down on her knee with her right hand. “Whew,” she said, “Give an ole lady a hand, will ya boy?”

We made the three steps just fine and reach the screen door. I could already hear cats, and a yellow kitten had climbed over halfway up the screen, and was hanging there like one of those annoying stuffed cats you see on people’s car windows nowadays. That kitten was yelling like a banshee. Old lady Scantland tapped the screen right at the belly of that kitten, and it fell to the floor – “blasted cats,” she muttered.

Once inside, I could see that there were at least ten cats in the big ole-timey kitchen. But when we walked into her parlor, my eyes couldn’t help but race around the room, not from cat to cat, but from one piece of incredible old glass, porcelain or other type antique to the next. This ole gal HAD some stuff, and even though I was still in High School, I recognized great antiques when I saw them. I’d been a collector since first grade.

Yeah . . She had a boatload of cats – probably close to forty in the house. But she also had a boatload of antiques. I learned later that she loved the cats and the antiques equally. Over the next few years, Miss Scantland and I developed a rather unusual relationship. Seventy years her junior, I think I was her only living friend. I’ll have to tell you about her sometime.

GOOD LUCK

Buyer pays $9.50 for professional packing and insured shipping.(That is for U.S. Lower 48 only. Elsewhere in the known Universe - request quote.) All Customs forms will state actual selling price of items shipped internationally.