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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Robert Welles, post: 1079743, member: 12542&quot;]My wife has a blanket chest her father bought in the 1950&#039;s from a dealer who attended the auction at the John Alden house in Massachusetts (this is the story).&nbsp; I am curious as to its age.&nbsp; The woodwork does have a very primitive quality, it is pine, the one drawer has cotter pins through a very plain brass escutcheon that would be only suggestive of a batwing. There appears to be no alteration to the cotter pins or replacement.&nbsp; It has a lock which appears to have been a replacement (steel?) and evidence of another mechanism having been in place.&nbsp; It has a dark red stain and the ornamental molding and trim have a grey paint or stain.&nbsp; There are red stain drips in the interior underneath.&nbsp; The front piece of the one drawer is dovetailed, no other dovetailing is evident.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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