Posted 9 years ago
Indiglo15
(4 items)
I bought this dresser at a thrift store yesterday for $60. It is in pretty good shape.
The dresser is 42" wide and a little over 17" deep.It is 43" high to the top of the "glove boxes" The knobs on the glove boxes are wood and they are fitted over what use to be keyhole locks. The draw pulls are carved wood
The style is similar to dressers I have seen listed online as Victorian or Eastlake. I have read that that was sort of like "Pottery Barn" at the turn of the century,lol.
The mirror is stamped P.P.G. Co MPLS(Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Minneapolis) and is dated June 1930 on the back. Do you think this dresser was made in 1930 or do you think the mirror is a replacement? Thanks in advance for any help.
The dresser certainly looks to be late 19th century, so I would suspect that the mirror was replaced at a later date.
scott
Thanks for your help! What about the way the drawers are constructed? I know alot of older furniture is "tongue and groove" but these drawers have a different style joint. Sort of like a puzzle piece. Does that give any clue as to when it was made? I included a picture of the joint above.
The joints are called "lock joints". That joint is used when you are joining to pieces of wood that are different dimensions. It is also called a Lock-Rabbet Drawer Joint if you care to look it up. Not as strong as dovetail but fairly sturdy. It is also called a keyhole dovetail joint. What it all boils down to is the joints were probably made after 1895.
Ok,thanks for the information!
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mrgee1959, thanks; gonna do that now!