Priceless child's armoire -- and a house

As all of you are surely aware, the market sets the value of a piece of Rare Victorian furniture.  In that sense, the little armoire shown below is priceless given as that my family is, more or less, the only market for such a piece.  At first glance this post might appear to be out of place--better suited for the Furniture section of this board.  Were it not for our house, I would not have come across this armoire.  Indeed, I probably would not have recognized it as a piece of Victorian furniture.  Regardless, through a long story of sorts, the house came to be much more than a house...I'll have to write more on that some day. 

The armoire shown below was purchased in 1876 by the original owners of my house (built 1881) for their first-born child.  As such, it is the only identified piece of furniture original to the house.  The great-grandson of the original owners of the house had this sitting in his daughter's room...it took me about 7 years of research to track down descendants of the original owners; this particular fellow being in California.  He and his wife sent it as a gift to our first-born child (born in April '07). 

I'm running short on time here, but I'd be happy to ramble on about this story if anybody cares to read it. 

Thank you,

Jason

Very kind of them to send that to you.  It rekindles my desire to find more descendants of my house's original family.  Not that I want them to donate furniture to me (oil paintings would be nice  ;) ), but as they die off, so does some of the verbal history.

As you say, you've got a priceless piece.

BTW, ramble on with the story when you get a chance.

Jason,
What a neat historical connection.  I am into genealogy as well as antiques, and as you have experienced, they often "go together".  Tell us some more about your home.

gordie