Featured French? Oak Sacristy Cabinet -Age & Origin?

Hello Fellow 'tiquers,
I've been busy unpacking and buying new old pieces to fit in the new old house. I could use your expertise on this one please. Purchased at a rural Virginia farm estate for $200.Owner ways it was originally purchased at an antiwque Shop din Maryland. She thought it might be Italian. Very dark oak,some old worm holes, and heavily stained with years of nicotine. I removed the inner tacky plastic and machine lace coverings to reveal the cut-outs but have not yet cleaned off all the old smoke residue. I could envision them originally back-lined with red velvet or silk, perhaps?
The labels appear to be for shipping from Quimper PO (post office?), so it somehow has a French connection. It is huge, standing about 80" high by 64" wide, and shows pegs and slots on the top edge where a missing gallery was meant to be. Lovely hand-carving all over, with IHS, host, chalice and candles representing the Eucharist. The center panel slides to left or right when the side doors are opened. Age? Origin? Any other symbolism I've missed? Thank you!

 

screams Brittany but could be Normandy.

 

Gorgeous. Guesstimate late 19th.

Ditto. Couldn't be more Breton if it tried.
These were usually stained dark, so not all staining is necessarily due to chain-smoking pastors (cigars, of course).

 

Thank you! It's been mum to me.

 

It's the shock from moving to a foreign country.

 

There's one confusing thing. The French for Post Office is bureau de poste. La Poste is the equivalent of Royal Mail. So why PO? The label is also train related.

Has to be a different abbreviation, I'm off to ponder.

 

Petite Vitesse..........gotta luv the French..

GRAND Vitesse...= Big Hurry

Petite Vitesse...= let's have a baguette and cheese & a coffee , and then a snooze....before we decide to ship this......


oh, I see why you paid 200......it's wonderful !

 

I was thinking of a little train.

 

Hm.

It's low speed, rather than express or normal. Destination station was Quimper.

 

I don't care!!!! IT'S GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NICE BUY!!!​

 

Handsome!!

 

Beautiful Breton 17th century revival piece ca. 1880. Great carving! You got a giveaway stone bargain with this one.

 

Right? She was practically giving things away.. a sterling serving spoon for $2, walnut piano stool with brass and glass ball feet for $10, a marvelous hand-wrought fireplace skirt for $10, Russian icon print $10, vintage embroidered tablecloths $10 the lot, etc...but she's the smoker.

 

Obviously. It is just a charming term, hence the comments.