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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 1697455, member: 6444&quot;]That was my take.</p><p>There are three possibilities - early 1700&#039;s, mid 1800&#039;s, and 1900&#039;s made to deceive. I don&#039;t think 1700&#039;s period piece is possible. Could be an 1800&#039;s piece made in the earlier style, but after seeing the posts of the inside and back I don&#039;t think it is 1800&#039;s either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this looks like it was made for export to the US so probably not a lot of these hanging around where you are. Made to deceive - thus aged wood in the back and hand cut drawers and old style hardware to give it an antique presence. They used to have pieces like this at travelling &quot;antique&quot; fairs in hotels and VFW halls - they would put ads in the paper and big signs outside the venue. In the 1990&#039;s when antiques were hot here in the US and there wasn&#039;t sufficient supply. Lots of oriental rugs, lamps with stained glass (to make you think Tiffany) and other glassware, over-the-top decoration antique-look furniture like this, antique looking paintings. I don&#039;t know that is where this came from, but it would have been appropriate in that venue.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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