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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 1932005, member: 5066&quot;]Has a little bidding war in progress on this chest of drawers, there is always one it seems that stands in the path of winning.</p><p>It&#039;s an early chest of drawers, C 1700, with side hung drawers, yellow/hard pine top &amp; sides which is unusual for new england where most secondary woods are white pine.</p><p>Provenance: Property Approved for Deaccession by the Board of Trustees of Historic Deerfield.</p><p>You can tell it&#039;s the real deal by the way the drawer bottoms are almost touching the drawer blades and a gap at top of drawer, millions of drawer pulls over the past 3 centuries causes this.</p><p>This chest was built in the Connecticut river valley, probably Hadley Mass.</p><p>Everything seems to be there except it&#039;s paint decoration which is a peculiar compass design unique to that area.</p><p>I hope whoever wins there are plans to restore it&#039;s paint as it seems naked without it.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://skinnerlive.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/561/lot/232534/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://skinnerlive.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/561/lot/232534/" rel="nofollow">https://skinnerlive.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/561/lot/232534/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]245697[/ATTACH]</p><p>What it looked like 300 years ago with it&#039;s paint intact/ Winterthur</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]245699[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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