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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 2462453, member: 6444&quot;]Not to belabor this, you&#039;re free to disagree with the rest of us. But consider 1920&#039;s to 50&#039;s (time range suggested) would be 100 to 70 years old. Appropriate hardware still available now (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Small-Brass-Mortise-Chest-Skeleton/dp/B0788RCPFD/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Small-Brass-Mortise-Chest-Skeleton/dp/B0788RCPFD/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Small-Brass-Mortise-Chest-Skeleton/dp/B0788RCPFD/</a> ) but even more readily available then and would give time to acquire patina. The brass screws don&#039;t look handcut to me. Steel finish nails, used in abundance, definitely not appropriate for a piece supposed to be old.</p><p><img src="https://www.amazon.com/images/I/41SzFxxEadL._AC_.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A rabbet joint is of course a VERY old joint, there&#039;s no disputing that. In fact in simplest form as your dictionary link shows, it is a small improvement over the simplest joint of simply butting two pieces together. But the joint on OP piece is a much later one, that was widely used in the 20th century and I have never seen used prior to that (though I certainly haven&#039;t seen everything). The link I gave shows factory produced joints (blind locking rabbet joint) from early to mid 20th century that look exactly the same; could have been from the same factory using the same power router jig:</p><p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/cf9a73_28ce0fa6d3844670b27e282b223f2ecd~mv2_d_4782_3188_s_4_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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