This thread on Early American Furniture triggered my old memories of one of the greatest experiences I ever had.
T’was in the mid-1970’s that myself, my wife, my older brother and his wife were given a private, day-long tour of Kamp Kill Kare in all of its untouched glory and contents. This tour was offered to us by the Caretaker whose son was married to my niece.
And talk about contents, there were 21 buildings @ KKK, one of them being a small stone Catholic Church that was imported from Ireland and one other was a small Pub imported from England ….. and most every building was “chock full” of antiques of all descriptions (furniture, glassware, pottery, guns, etc., etc.) and most items had an inventory “tag” attached because the property and contents belonged to the heirs of the Mabel Brady Garvan Estate, …… a name that I am sure that Jacon4 is familiar with.
My wife, who thought herself to be quite knowledgeable about antiques, spent most of that day saying to herself, ….. “Oh my gawd, .... Oh my gawd”, …. every time she viewed something different.
Cheers
ps: I heard later on that when the heirs removed the contents of KKK it took 20 tractor-trailer loads to do so.
