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Message:: [QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 175099, member: 57"]Bluemoon, some thoughts I have (not necessarily for you and this particular piece of furniture) about what I have highlighted above.  I'm suggesting the following for "new to antiques" (or semi-new to antiques) members here who (may) have questions about case furniture/case goods.  Whether these "questions" for people to "think about" will be of any help or not who knows but . . . "Case furniture" is most often placed with its back against a wall.  Has a piece of case furniture spent most of its life against an interior wall or with its back against an "outside" (but still inside the building/dwelling) wall? Has it spent most of its life in close proximity to an operable window? Were the doors (if applicable) usually open for viewing objects inside?  Or was the furniture kept closed unless in actual use (retrieving items inside or placing items inside)? Was it originally constructed of "green" or "semi-green" or "fully-aged" wood?[/QUOTE]