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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 2779263, member: 4654&quot;]&quot;the vertical tongue and groove plank back is typical or not&quot; there are many types of back form full paneled to part paneled ie planks that go from top to bottom with thinker vertical planks to attach the thinner planks to, mine has 4 thick planks with thinner planks in between.</p><p>As for it being fairly heavy, the top, sides, and front are all made of 3/4 inch thick solid wood with a internal structure both bottom and top so it&#039;s a very heavy piece, thus not wanting to move it out into the middle of the room to photograph the back.</p><p>You wouldn&#039;t expect to see any saw marks on a English made piece of this age, they would have been planed out.</p><p>Not sure what you are talking about here &quot;The photo of the drawer back seems to show some regular angles ones.&nbsp; I can not tell if they are wide circular or straight.&nbsp; At any rate, they are power driven.&quot; I can assure you nothing on this chest is &quot;power&quot; anything&nbsp; &quot;The chip-out seen on the surface is typical of a power plane&quot; again the tearout on the curvy grain you can see is from a hand plane, you can even see where the scrub plane was used by the across the grain marks. </p><p>&quot;Your 8th picture shows the interior of the side being pine.&nbsp; Are the sides veneer?&quot; No all solid wood and not pine, the camera flash playing tricks.</p><p>&quot;I also seem to see a screw recess that I assume attaches the top.&nbsp; Is there just the one?&nbsp; Do you think this original?&quot; Yup both screws and nails holding the top internal structure to the top as well as joinery. </p><p>Again you question &quot;The overall clean condition&quot; but this is very common in campaign chest because of the tight fitting drawers, in fact I will post a video of a fully marked campaign chest known to be early and you will see it almost looks new.&nbsp; </p><p>&quot;comparisons on ebay&quot; I will admit to find a chest like mine is hard but not impossible, later 19th c chests were made as one piece and didn&#039;t have handles on the sides because they came with their own painted pine over chest for transport, the handles would have got in the way when putting it back into the pine box for travel.</p><p>After doing loads of research for this thread I think I know more about campaign chests than I do about anglo-Indian antiques, I&#039;m satisfied that the chest is between 1870-1890 in age, I know it&#039;s been fully refinished (something that may have lead to it being miss recognised in the first place) I suspect it had been in sunlight for many years and become bleached thus the need to fully refinish (both stain and polish) I have covered both reasons for it being one piece and the reason for no handles but I will post the video as we are all here to learn.</p><p><br /></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]osajO0ew_eU[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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