Featured Help identifying age/style/whatever you call this type of desk

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  1. Hamilton T. Cat

    Hamilton T. Cat New Member

    What I do know. Purchased in New Orleans 15 years ago. Was told it was a "plantation desk". Used post civil war, each "sharecropper" had a drawer with own lock for ledger. So I was told. I liked it, price was cheap so I bought it.

    Dovetails were hand cut, you can see the marks from the marking gauges. drawer bottoms were fit with hand planes etc.

    Thoughts?

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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    looks like a private office desk.....with all those locks.....
     
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  3. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    Those handles don't really fit with the desk, as in the handle seems to overlap the lock.

    Does the top lift up?
     
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  4. Hamilton T. Cat

    Hamilton T. Cat New Member

    I agree. The handles seem to have been added at some point. No, the top is fixed. Slanted, but fixed in place.
     
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  5. KingofThings

    KingofThings 'Illiteracy is a terrible thing to waist' - MHH

    Welcome!
    GREAT photos! :)
     
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  6. verybrad

    verybrad Well-Known Member

    Think this may be a cut down clerk's or paymaster's desk circa 1860. Would think it should be just a bit taller. Locks and drawer pulls are later additions.
     
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