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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 10516915, member: 6444&quot;]OK, I guess I have to respond since you were kind enough to post all those pics. But as I said, it would be better for you to run these pics by the auction site I mentioned earlier. Nothing I say is about the North Carolina-ness of your pieces, only my thoughts from examining and in some cases disassembling and repairing a lot of antiques.</p><p><br /></p><p>Piece 1: You mentioned a newly added leg and I didn’t see that (I only looked at the pics that you displayed, not the post with a list of file names that seemed to be the same). I would have liked to see underneath, which I don’t think you showed. But I think I know what is going without it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My feeling is this is a piece put together with old and new parts and wood. I don’t believe it started life together. The glazed doors are the best part (my concern 6 was incorrect), and do have glass from late 19th century or earlier. New parts look to include hinges and all the top moulding. The top doors look to have a different history from bottom doors and not built by the same craftsman. I assume someone in the 20th century started with two sets of old doors and old wood (plus new wood where needed) and put this piece together.</p><p><br /></p><p>Piece 3: Also looks 20th century built from old wood, but without the nice doors piece 1 started with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Piece 2: This is in my opinion the best of these three pieces and started life together and looks to be walnut (not sure about shelves, maybe walnut too). As you pointed out the top has very unfortunately been cut off and top doors missing. Unfortunately this has happened to numerous antiques when moved to rooms or doorways with lower ceilings.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am going to guess that Piece 2 started life as a built in dining room piece and not a free standing piece of furniture. That would explain missing base (maybe nothing more than room wood flooring was used) yet why there seems to have never been legs. Oh, and glad to see that at least one of the quarter circles was replaced over time (pic 6).</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe Piece 2 to be from mid 19th century or later, based on the two piece door panels.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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