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<p>[QUOTE="Adrian Lewis, post: 2703774, member: 12565"]With respect, I'm not missing anything sir. It is a ludicrous assumption to say that every cabinet maker/competent carpenter-joiner from 1700 to 1850 used the classic chamfered single panel in their drawer bottoms. Also the classic time line for N-S directional drawer bottoms, chamfered or otherwise in the US was changing in the 1750's, a bit later in Britain so by the end of the 18thC apart from a scattering of purists had all but died out. The weak attempt at a Georgian bracket foot and the three clumsy dovetail joints in the image are not the mark of a competent cabinet maker hence a competent provincial piece, or other maybe equally plausible possibilities as have been suggested. One can only draw general conclusions from the images.</p><p>A good (American) article here on mid 18thC cabinet making with no suggestion of chamfered drawer bottoms.</p><p><a href="https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/constructing-a-mid-eighteenth-century-drawer/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/constructing-a-mid-eighteenth-century-drawer/" rel="nofollow">https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/constructing-a-mid-eighteenth-century-drawer/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Adrian Lewis, post: 2703774, member: 12565"]With respect, I'm not missing anything sir. It is a ludicrous assumption to say that every cabinet maker/competent carpenter-joiner from 1700 to 1850 used the classic chamfered single panel in their drawer bottoms. Also the classic time line for N-S directional drawer bottoms, chamfered or otherwise in the US was changing in the 1750's, a bit later in Britain so by the end of the 18thC apart from a scattering of purists had all but died out. The weak attempt at a Georgian bracket foot and the three clumsy dovetail joints in the image are not the mark of a competent cabinet maker hence a competent provincial piece, or other maybe equally plausible possibilities as have been suggested. One can only draw general conclusions from the images. A good (American) article here on mid 18thC cabinet making with no suggestion of chamfered drawer bottoms. [URL]https://pegsandtails.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/constructing-a-mid-eighteenth-century-drawer/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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