I think this piece came from an architects office, it’s a tower of 10 drawers, made of oak, possibly from the 1920’s – 30’s.
It has cast iron drawer handles, with space in the handles for drawer content cards.
One way to tell is to look for dove-tail joints in the outside corners of the drawers. This is a technique used in older carpentry to join two pieces of wood together, fitting them together sort of like a jigsaw puzzle, instead of how they tend to do it today with dowels and glue.
Ed June 20, 2009
11:12 pm
Looks to me as if it could be a storage cabinet for drawings. If so the inside width of the drawers would be likely at least 36″ or 48″.’
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One way to tell is to look for dove-tail joints in the outside corners of the drawers. This is a technique used in older carpentry to join two pieces of wood together, fitting them together sort of like a jigsaw puzzle, instead of how they tend to do it today with dowels and glue.
Looks to me as if it could be a storage cabinet for drawings. If so the inside width of the drawers would be likely at least 36″ or 48″.’