Is This Trash Picked Antique worth $1000?? Let’s Fix it Up and see.
Fixing up a lightly damaged authentic antique Globe-Wernicke “Elastic“ Barrister’s Bookcase
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HERE are some links that I found and used during the production of my video:
Globe-Wernicke 1906 Book-Case Catalog:
Francis Mason brought the Globe-Wernicke Franchise to Canada in 1902:
About Canadian Furniture Manufacturers company
Trying to find out clues to HOW OLD is it:
HERE IS THE STORY...
I’ve been woodworking for 25 years now and almost since the beginning of that time I’ve thought that Barrister’s Bookcases were fascinating. I am referring to the real ones, where it goes together like legos, and you can add and remove shelf modules. Over the years I’ve seen a number of magazine articles or videos where people replicate them, but they usually “fake“ it by buildig a monolithic single unit bookcase.
So one Saturday in early July I was heading out of the house on an errand and two doors down there is a Barrister’s Bookcase sitting on the side of the street.
But I had places to go, and it looked small and dirty, and I really do not need another bookcase, and it was probably a fake... So I drove past. When I came home it was still there, but I was busy unloading the car and forgot about it. Later that day it poured rain. Late in the evening we were out again and upon arriving at home I noticed that the bookcase was still there. So after we parked the car I wandered over to confirm that it was a piece of junk and that I was right to ignore it...
And it was an actual modular Barrister’s bookcase. Four modules that click together like legos. Almost undoubtedly 50 years old. (Wrong. Later I figure it is more like 100 years old.) And I’d ignored it and left it in the rain... I promptly grabbed a furniture dolly from the garage and carted it home. Sure it was dirty, water damaged, and I didn’t NEED one. But it was an actual authentic Barrister’s Bookcase!
This video is now the story of me examining and seeing what needed to be done to fix it up and make it nicer. Would I need to strip it right down to bare wood? I expected to have to cut out and replace some damaged wood. But things definitely changed over the course of my work on it.
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-- Zinsser SealCoat Shellac
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— Painter’s Pyramids
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— I do also have a GoPro Hero 5 Black
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INDEX
00:00 Goes Together Like Lego
00:30 Whatsit?
01:37 Found One For Sale
02:20 Canadian Made
03:13 Equalizer Mech
03:50 Strip Or Not?
04:17 Cleaning
06:25 Cleaning Results
07:31 Damaged Finish
08:00 Acetone Methanol
09:20 Definitely Shellac
10:45 Not Going Well
11:21 Bare Wood and Touch Ups
12:20 Side Note: Factory Furniture
14:05 What it cost in 2023 dollars?
15:52 Staining and Top Touch Up
17:58 Shellac The Top
19:01 Shellac Results
21:12 More Repairs
25:36 More Shellac Touch Ups
26:14 Successful Restore!
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