Featured What is this cabinet?

Purchased this cabinet thinking it was for liquor but now I'm now so sure. It has walnut colored / figured veneer on the exterior and top, and walnut burl on the interior tip out and drawers. The top most section has circular cut outs for bottles of some sort and is (strangely) lined with enameled steel. The lower right drawer is also lined with enameled steel but not so it would be water proof. The middle section is a tip out lined with green felt. I think it's English in origin because of the burl and dating from the '40s. If not a liquor cabinet what was its use? Thanks!

 

I think alcohol comes into it.

 

I think it was a desk someone converted to a bar. Its actually kinda cool.

 

That's definitely been repurposed. Hard to tell the dimensions from the angle of the photos.

 

I don't think it's repurposed, I've seen similar. Never a desk with those doors and the drawers in that configuration. Enamelling to protect the interior from spills and such. Cut outs for glasses, the big section for chilled bottles, the other divided bit for red wine or other things stored flat. So you have bottle storage yes, and also implement storage in the lid. We'd call it a cocktail cabinet or cupboard.

Made to match a radiogram cabinet by the look of it.

 

What she said. I've seen those before.