Featured Vintage record storage cabinet info please help:-)

Does anyone know anything about this record storage cabinet? Approximately the year it was made and what company it was made by?

 

It's a sheet music cabinet...

~Cheryl

 

I can't help with your questions, but I do want to say that I think the "carving" on the door is quite lovely.

I also like the various "patterns" in the wood on the front of the cabinet.

 

DragonflyWink, thank you for supplying that information re sheet music storage. I started to say "document(s) storage" but I'm sure you're correct about sheet music.

 

Very cool ... I would have never guessed that... thank you

 

Sheet music, yes. So... are we thinking deco? I'm still learning these style 'neighbors'!

 

Would say this is Edwardian.... early 20th century. Mahogany and refinished at some point.

 

Thank you!

 

Thanks, Brad. That front decoration threw me off. Now that you say that, I see the overall Edwardian-ness of the piece.

 

I'm thinking DECO , would look more like this............

 

I do SEE.

MAN... that is SOOOOOO pretty!

 

I'm amazed that my home is not festooned with art deco......

 

Reminds me of a beautiful Deco tall radio that one of my favorite antique stores had out front with a sign saying "$30.00 cash & carry". I cashed and my husband carried . Still has the complete tube radio and deco speaker so he carefully removed them and stored them and I use the Deco cabinet as a TV stand.

 

Calico, if you have time... a picture, pretty please? Cash and carry... I like how you roll!

 

I'm too lazy to go downstairs and take a pic but it's just like this one.

 

If I remember to bring my camera downstairs later I'll take a pic of mine.

 

Komo's pic is modern retro deco. This is period art deco.



or a bit different configuration........

 

The pic you posted is of a traditional revival depression era radio. Not really deco but from the same period.

 

Did not realize how hard it is to find a true art deco sheet music cabinet. The two I posted were the only true examples I found. The first one is so plain and late that it is even a stretch to call it deco. The second is not a typical configuration so, though it was listed as a music cabinet, it could have just as well been for another purpose. I guess that by the deco period, music cabinets were out of fashion.

 

Sorry brad.......I'm not that smart.....but I know what I like !!