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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Adrian Lewis, post: 2452451, member: 12565&quot;]As said before, somewhere, lots of these were called apprentice pieces in Britain but usually not too complex. Towards the end of his apprenticeship, a trainee cabinet maker would be required to make to scale a piece of furniture in miniature before he was let loose on a full sized piece. Also, a skilled cabinet maker of the 18th/19thC would be asked to make things in miniature for use by&nbsp; middle class merchants etc and wealthy for use as trinket/jewellery boxes, make-up accessories, some even doll&#039;s house furniture etc etc. Not denying that some were salesman&#039;s samples, just to say that most people when they see a miniature just jump in with &quot;It&#039;s a salesman&#039;s sample&quot; without considering the alternatives.&nbsp; Here are some more miniatures/apprentice pieces. The mid-late 18thC Georgian bureau I would say was not an apprentice piece, but the Victorian chest of drawers below it was a not complicated piece for probably an apprentice piece and I had a few of similar type&nbsp; through my auction house over the years. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]265133[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]265134[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]265135[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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