[Magdalen] Feeling very grown-up

[Susan Hutchinson]

At the risk of being declared a heretic, may I suggest that some pieces may be painted and used? Others may be offered at auction (they will raise little, but that's how it is) or donated to the furniture warehouse offered by some RC sisters in Toronto to those setting up new homes (sorry, I've forgotten the name of the charity). Maybe one of the LOFT houses could use them? If they are particularly nice antiques -- perhaps one of the Toronto house museums, like Spadina, would be interested.

I understand from a friend that Victoria is the Queen City for such detritus of an earlier and now unfashionable age. The auction houses are full to bursting with "brown" furniture, silver, crystal and china -- all selling for a song -- as older adults declutter and down size and die.

Styles may change again, but meanwhile the living have to live and not to store.

… says she who is using the family silver and china -- and painting the mahogany!

love and blessings
Susan

On 2015-06-28, at 5:14 AM, Marion Thompson wrote:

> Beyond the totally unacceptable dump, any easily do-able suggestions as to where the mahogany may go ?  My agent in PH, who was in antiques for 20 years before housing, just says quietly that nobody wants this sort of thing nowadays.  Just one of the practical problems that loom.

The Rev. Susan Hutchinson
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