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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 379504, member: 29&quot;]Interesting question. Many small carpenters and companies made to designs in published pattern books, rather than designing from scratch. But they&#039;d still perhaps tweak a thing by adding their own handles or whatever. Larger companies - Gillows, say - did make longer runs, but furniture was still usually commissioned, rather than being made and sitting in a shop. Your chest might have been amended for someone who wanted a bigger piece. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s only really recently that companies have started having larger stocks. I bought Stag furniture back in the 70s from John Lewis and it was made for us. Has my surname in challk on the base of the drawers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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