Featured Thrift Store Find - Is this a 1930s Art Deco Bar-Cart?

I found this yesterday at my regular thrift store. When I did a google image search I found this; which looks really close:
1930s Walnut Art Deco Bar-Cart • Cocktail Inlay | Sold Items Bars | Art Deco Collection

But - the handle is different, mine doesn't have the cocktail inlay, and the back of the image one is a solid piece while mine is separate compartments/boxes like the front.

Is my find a authentic art deco bar cart or is it just a copy?

PS - the support/ledges(?) that are inside the main compartment I thought were for glass or wood shelves that would lay straight across, but could they also be used for the U shape shelves like the ones inside the real 1930's bar-cart? How/where can I find a pair of those?

Thank you for any help!

 

Any idea where I can find the U shape shelves that go inside?
Maybe Google carpenter Miami to have them measured/made?

 

For some reason that link did not open for me. That is a very nice deco cart! I found two similar ones ...
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/tables/bar-carts/mobile-art-deco-bar-cart-1940s/id-f_17846141/
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/s...-bars/art-deco-rolling-bar-cart/id-f_8367273/
IMHO, unless I was going to keep it, I would not invest any money in it. Even if it was kept, it's clean enough to be used as is. If you're going to sell it ... just make some money and move on.

 

Selling it was my plan. But it was cheap enough ($75 - which is why I wanted to be sure it wasn't a copy) - that I thought it'd be worth getting the U shape shelves made.

 

I'd say leave it as found and let the new owner do what they want. They may have other ideas of repurposing and not want the shelves anyway.

 

Thanks will do - easier for me, too!

 

Nice cart! I don't think the shelves are a big deal but would certainly get some kind of replacement handle put on before selling.

 

Neato!

 

I don't know why it wouldn't open either, but here's some photos of it - and why I got excited when I saw mine (and how nice those U shape shelves add to the look!) - except for the handle & how the back is one piece they are quite similar.
So I'm going to sell mine as a circa 1930's bar cart; I don't think it's a copy/knock off and no one has said they thought so - so for sale As Is but legit!
Thanks for all the help & ideas

 

Let the "witness marks" be your guide. Look at the interior of the cabinet. You will see the type of shelving it had. I can see along the back wall that there are clear lines from one little bracket to the next. If there is no evidence of similar lines or holes from other brackets on the sides, then it never had them. It may have only had the back shelves like in the first link I posted.
Also, I think you will have a tough time matching the wood. It's a good idea to let the new buyer do what they think is best. I agree that they push rod is important to replace! I'd have a clear glass rod of brass tube cut to fit. Address the water stain and the veneer chip and you're done.

 

Thanks!

 

If you're fixated on the shelves.....cut or have cut, a couple of simple, narrow, rectangular glass shelves. Would probably be wide enough for glasses but impractical for wheeling about and it would look spiffy.

 

Like I always say Journey Mag-Top Dollar Paid,up to $25 CASH for Original Rembrandt's ! Journey,you're livin' in Thrift Store Heaven-it's the kinda Twilight Zone Episode I wanna jump into.

 

Journey-I gotta move down to Miami-the West Coast is picked to the bone.You don't even find Overpriced good stuff at the Thrift Stores anymore.Wonder why Miami-Senior retirees with $ and good taste ?

 

I am not going to question it - might jinx it!

 

Beautiful area,just wish it were a tad less humid.Lots of cultured senior citizens move down to Miami,Boca,Saratoga after they're done going to all those NY Auctions-the 'Big Apple',treasure house of the world.You're a savvy buyer Journey going for Art-all you'll need to find is a Rothko,Pollock or Deibenkorn and you'll be able to hop in yr private jet and pick the world ! Mi-Century Abstract Baby !!!