A wonderfully characterful and highly practical antique floor-standing storage cupboard, later fitted with an impressive arrangement of 52 individually handmade and painted wooden drawers.
The substantial antique cabinet provides a handsome framework for the later drawer arrangement, creating an unusual and visually striking piece of storage furniture. Each of the 52 drawers has been handmade and painted, giving the cabinet a distinctive apothecary, haberdashery or traditional workshop-style appearance.
The cabinet dates to around circa 1900 with the drawers and sectional dividers being added at a later date to create this stunning piece of repurposed antique furniture.
With its large proportions and exceptional amount of compartmentalised storage, this would be ideal for organising documents, stationery, craft materials, haberdashery, jewellery, collectors' items, tools or other smaller objects.
The cabinet also retains a working lock and is supplied with its key, adding to both its practicality and period character.
75cm X 28cm // Height 99cm
Drawers are all hand made so do slight vary in size by a few mm but the rough internal size of each drawer is 13cm X 17cm with a depth of 4.5cm
Condition - Good antique useable order with minor surface age and use wear to the cabinet. Structurally solid.
Item No. 9490
