Featured Grandma's Cabinet, 19th century, early biedermeier?

So happy to have this family heirloom. Originally my grandma's then it went to my aunt and when she passed, I made sure I got it. Definitely old, 19th century but from what part of the 19th century?( do not know why my pictures get increasingly worse)

 

I started when there was still daylight, I blame fall and the days getting shorter...and my hardware, crappy cell phone camera... I'll try again in the morning.

 

I'm getting a mid-19th century vibe, 1840-1870.

 

I think 1870s-90s
Possibly French.

I have a cabinet with this type of shelving bracket. It is stamped France. Don't know if other countries used this method for shelves or not. I find it very clever and easy to change shelf heights.

 

Most of the built-in oak "hutches" in the circa 1900 bungalows and flats in Chicago use this system.

 

I like the 1870s or so dating. Doubt it is earlier. European. Any info on country history?

 

I've got an American cylinder desk and bookshelf unit with this system as well, ca. 1885 or so.

 

Do not know who owned it before my grandmother, could have been in the family for a longer time. But i think it is dutch or belgian, possibly northern french or even from the western part of germany, I think it stayed close to its origins. The style of this cabinet though is a bit more subdued than later dutch "biedermeier" pieces I have seen, which are more curvy, less straight lines and often infused with neo-styles, maybe those should not be called biedermeier, but when even antique stores do it, that only adds to my confusion..
I think this one is a purer biedermeier example than my other so called biedermeier cabinets, therefore a bit older than those...and it is not machine made I think. Dovetails on the drawers are uneven.
It's a cloudy day in the netherlands, a bit dark, hope I can make some better pictures...

...what kind of nuts are these? These were used to attach the upper part of the cabinet to the lower part.

 

Wing nuts or sometimes called Butterfly nuts.

 

but a very old version of those, they seem hand forged

some slightly better pictures:

 

Look up "rams's horn nuts" to see other examples of hand-forged nuts similar to yours. I have a couple around here somewhere (only reason I know the term).

 

With these better photos I'm feelin' 1860.

 

Still does not tell me from what time they were in use. I like the term though...

 

I don't know about the furniture, but awesome room full of stuff!!

 

AnnPan should weigh in on this. The room looks like a candy store for antiquers. Love it all.

 

All my rooms are like that...
I am aiming for the most antique things per square meter ever...(as I have a very small appartment, but a huge basement luckily)
Someone will be very lucky after I am gone, if my niece and nephews do not want any of it, assuming I survive my older sisters...Too many funerals lately, excuse my morbid thoughts...

 

Hi, only thing I can really add is that it looks more continental or even German than British. I am having fun playing with my auction buys from Sunday.