My favorite piece

Hello again everyone. I hope you all got your "find fix" this week.
I would appreciate some help with date, style and so on of this corner cabinet. It was my grandmothers in Glasgow, Scotland and has been in our family for minimum 100 years. Shipped to Canada to my mother when Gran passed. The door glass is all beveled. No makers marks I could ever find. It has to be bolted to the wall as the door is so heavy. Never refinished, just a Murphys soap wash and wax to get all the coal smoke off. Old Glasgow was a dirty place.
Look forward to hearing from the furniture experts and of course everyone.
Bill

 

Can you get a picture of one of the glass bevels? Something that shows any texture in the bevel?

I wonder if that door is a replacement. It's certainly more usual to have two doors in a situation like that.

If you the check frame opposite the hinges, do you see any signs that there might have been previous hinges removed?

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I found an image (Pinterest, so fairly useless) that purports to show a Chippendale piece with similarly large door:

https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1102&bih=619&q="display+cabinet"+"dentilled+cornice"&oq="display+cabinet"+"dentilled+cornice"&gs_l=img.12...32194.59694.0.62960.37.23.0.14.0.0.545.7808.4-10j6.16.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..7.14.6879...0.wkDrFTWE2FQ#hl=en&tbm=isch&q="corner+hutch"+"dentilled+cornice"&imgrc=_

(second row down)

The dentilled cornice is a neo-classical touch, but I think the curves elsewhere are not. Could be some neo-classical revival. Might be Victorian.

 

On the 4th photo down it looks like there is something written on the metal. Perhaps just has to do with the hardware.

 

Kind of arts and crafts with a bit more traditional twist to it. Not sure if this makes it pre or post arts and crafts period. Looking at the hardware and condition, I would think post. This would put it at 1920 or so.

 

Hello moreotherstuff, thanks for the insight. Definately no signs anywhere of door change or alteration and the wood is a perfect match. See additional pics of glass and moulding as good as I could get them.

 

The door is fine. Nice late 19th C traditional Scots piece, think middle class manse or similar. Furniture was getting simpler here by then, especially with the Mackintosh influence.

I'd email these people: http://www.greatwesternauctions.com/valuations/request-a-valuation/ . They're Glasga' based and will do a an estimate for free.

 

Sounds like you are getting some good advice here.

@PACKRAT Did you have a chance to look at whatever is written on the metal? (See photo #4 down from top.) Sometimes can help w/dating even if just the hardware. For example if it was only a company open for certain years.

 

I tried looking at the markings on the lock with not much luck. I have cropped, rotated, zoomed in, changed the perspective and tried focusing. After rotating the markings on our right is "English Made." The markings on our left looks like a name, &, name, but are too blurred to make out. No doubt the lock makers name; however, if we could ID them then might be able to date the piece. Have included edited versions. Nowwww it could be a name, &, name or the top name may have a "q" or "g" in the middle making the bottom of the letter hanging down looks like an "&." At first I thought the top name was Samuel, but not now. The bottom name looks like it has a "v" in the middle.

--- Susan

 

it actually says 3 or 5 in the middle, can't quite decide, and Lever below - that's the lock type. Give me time and I'll remember who the lock maker is, too.

 

Regardless of what it says, I'd take that piece IN A HEARTBEAT!!!!! It certainly IS LOVELY!!!!!!

 

Hi Lucille.b
The words on the lock say SECURE 2 LEVER in a stacked format.
Thanks for your help
Bill

 

The bevels look very smooth to me, which may indicate that they were done by machine. On pieces certainly up to Edwardian times I would expect hand beveling, which would show a lot of striations (almost like faceting) along the surface.

I don't know when machine beveling was introduced.