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jabiloxi

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Re: Slant front desk secretary / Is this right? Ideas on age?
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2011, 12:17:55 am »
Sorry for the delay in getting these taken and posted.  Have been really busy the last few days.

Here are the pics of the drawer.

Thanks for all the replies everyone :)

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Re: Slant front desk secretary / Is this right? Ideas on age?
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2011, 04:35:06 am »
I took the liberty to lighten this picture up so one can better see the joinery of the door front & side.

I can’t see anything holding the two pieces together …….. so it must have “full blind” dovetails as pictured here, to wit:


 


Anyway, that looks to be a 4/4” (4 quarter) door front and the secondary wood looks like pine.