Description
Purchased at an estate sale for $150. Looking for price in current condition and recomendation on wether refurbishing would deminish value (i refurbish to restore original condition as much as possible, no paint or significatn modifications)
Two peice chest of drawers Bottom and top half stack one achother for easy portability. advertised as an 1800's sea captain's chest at the estate sale which could be a clue to some of its history.
- Very early drawer construction. A single dovetail in the front with a rough cut tapered back panel and drawer bottom grain running perpendicular to the front of the drawer. Drawers slide on drawer runners through a dado in the side of the drawer.
- All hand forged cut nails throughout
- brass key escutcheons, original key is missing
- veneered top and vaneered drawer fronts with moldings that are very true to charles II period
- a fair amount of bug damage (pin holes) and some rotted wood near the bottom
- most of the glue is failing, someone tried repairing it with pin nails at some point so there are modern pin nails in various locations
- rubbing surface of drawers and drawer slides ahve been repaired to add fresh material.
- Floating tennon to register top and bottom together. Three of the 4 were repaired to replace material containing the mortise. This was done very well and you can barley see where the new material starts and the original old material ends. great grain and colour match
- roman numeral markings on each drawer slide which corelates to its position in the cabinet (likely original)
- markings on the back cross braces that correlate to their position on the case.
- Significant shrinkage has caused some cracks and some joints to open up in various locations
- small square wood feet raise it off the ground about 2 inches (extension of corner posts
- Knobs look like a new addition, you can see the round dowel has a spiral groove cut into it, these are mostly all loose now.
- Some signs of white paint in various locations
