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Victorian Meat Safe - $1,000
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Stands 4' tall, 3' wide, and 1.5' deep. Those are some satisfying dimensions.
...and before you ask, a ‘meat safe’ was used to keep meat, cheese, and pies ‘fresh’ before refrigeration. You might call it a "cheese safe" or a "pie safe". Cool airflow in the absence of flies was almost as good as a fridge.
Screening is very fine copper mesh. Keeps flies out and kills any bacteria that may come in on the breeze.
Chances are good you will not use it for meat, dairy or pies. Makes a handy bookshelf or knick-knack shelf. Heck, punch some holes in it and turn it into an old-timey entertainment center.
I put a new coat of milk paint in whitewash white on it, but left the back the original pickle. I don't know what that pickle is...but it will not come off with any known stripper from Dad's to xylene. Not even a heat gun would touch it.
Local pickup only. When you come by I can give you a tour of the house from which it came ca. 1840.
It's a lovely piece. I simply don't have room for it.