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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 1664808, member: 6444&quot;]Yes, that looks to be a massive project. I don&#039;t want to be discouraging, but I wouldn&#039;t take that on. That said, I understand that pieces with family history can make it worthwhile so I commend your efforts.</p><p><br /></p><p>This piece reminds me of another recent thread for a sideboard because the pictures don&#039;t all add up for this piece. In the first three pics I can see the front of the desk with doors underneath (which is an odd configuration to start with). Since I can see only the front but can&#039;t see either side it&#039;s hard to guess how it works together. Based on the moulding shapes, though, it looks like maybe a desk top was plopped on top of a cabinet (with the doors removed) and is a marriage. That is a guess however.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then we have a hand-cut drawer dovetail that doesn&#039;t seem to be the same drawer as the one shown in your picture from the front - so where is it from? Then a diamond carving that isn&#039;t visible in the first pictures either - where is that from? Then a leg that must be taken from the back since there are so many visible nails but then what is going on to the right?</p><p><br /></p><p>If you add some more pics it may all come together and make sense, but at this point it looks like a collection of bits from a few different pieces and time periods. You have good pics of the front, but it would help a lot to add a pic showing the side, and a pic with the desk lid down (what keeps that lid from breaking off?), and one with the drawer pulled out but still in its runner, and one from the back. Maybe then the elephant will start to become visible; for now it seems like we only have the trunk and the ears.</p><p><br /></p><p>p.s. At this point, except for the drawer, all the pieces I can see seem to be from an early 20th century piece. But more pics will tell more I hope.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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