Need help,identifying writers desk...

[frogpatch]

If you take the lock in comparison to the drawer front, the drawer is about 5-6 inches deep. Count the amount of that height down the leg and it appears that the desk is only 25 inches high in the front and 30 inches in the back approximately. I would say its a school desk. Plus the legs are very utilitarian in design for mass production.

[cogar]

I would say its a school desk.

YUP, an all the little kidddies carried the key to their desks on a string around their necks ....... and if they lost their key or forgot it at home they had to "stand in the corner" for 30 minutes.

Tis no wonder that someone had to invent "combination" locks ..... given the fact there is only 4 corners in each classroom

[cogar]

But before they invented "public schools" they were making these, to wit:


If anyone has a copy of Kathryn McNerney’s book titled …………

PRIMITIVES our American Heritage – Second Series

Then check page #109 and you will find a picture of a small “tapered square legged” desk with the included description stating, to wit:

SLANT TOP DESK. ca:  1700s. Pine, iron keeper, can be locked: 3”H top and short sides gallery as well as a narrow one around front and sides of the slant top;  41”H x 29 ½”W x 28 ½”D.

And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,

One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.
Alexander Pope

[KC]

YUP, an all the little kidddies carried the key to their desks on a string around their necks ....... and if they lost their key or forgot it at home they had to "stand in the corner" for 30 minutes.

Tis no wonder that someone had to invent "combination" locks ..... given the fact there is only 4 corners in each classroom

Cogar, made me laugh out loud.  I can remember having to stand in a corner a few times!

[greenacres]

  Before my time, but I remember the paddle.

[mart]

Yeah !!  GA,,,so do I !!! And it was not before my time !!