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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Geoff10, post: 4471289, member: 76673&quot;]It is no light weight for sure.&nbsp; It’s all solid oak. Fits together perfectly.&nbsp; The sides have dowels top and bottom.&nbsp; The bottom and canopy have mortised metal “pockets” and the doors have mortised metal pins that fit in the pockets.&nbsp; The sheer weight of the canopy top pins the sides, doors, and back in place. The doors open and close like butter.&nbsp; The paneled back help to keep it square.&nbsp; When I had the damage on it repaired, I asked the shop to install a new, kind of like, “strong back” reinforcement to the base to prevent sagging of the bottom down onto the drawer below.&nbsp; This seemed to be partly why it was always being removed by tenants.&nbsp; Also not visible is a diagonal oak slat I asked for behind the back panel that really locks in the square. I was hoping this type construction would help identify who, when, where it might have come from.&nbsp; It was not cheaply thrown together.&nbsp; I think it’s a proper piece of furniture for it’s time.&nbsp; The adjustable shelf in it is scalloped out so the hinge side of the doors can swing into it. The shelf can also go all the way up or down to the base and sits in four…jagged, like lightning bolt shelf standards that are in each interior corner.&nbsp; </p><p>When it was in the shop being repaired, a person who refinishes things like this begged me…..seriously…..to let him refinish a piece of it just so he could say to himself he worked on something like this.&nbsp; I’m not fooling.&nbsp; It made me think at least I wasn’t just flushing money away having it repaired.&nbsp; Anyway I let him do the door on the right.&nbsp; I’m seriously thinking of having the whole thing finally attended to so it can be the best of itself.&nbsp; I think I owe that much to it. [ATTACH=full]387089[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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