[Jamie]

Milk Paint? It may have been. It was the toughest paint I have ever seen. I don't know what kind of paint it was, but they should paint nuclear bomb shelters with it! One entire can of citrus stripper, one can of chemical stripper, one half can of mineral spirits, five rolls of paper towels, six stripping pads, five #0000 steel wool pads and one ruined nylon brush later and it is almost stripped. The white paint would melt into the original finish and form some kind of black goo that was almost impossible to remove. And if the black goo dried, I had to add more stripper and start over. Nasty. nasty stuff...

The good news is that the armor of indestructible milk paint did a great job of protecting the wood underneath it. I will add a photo of the cabinet after it's cleaned up a bit.