Antique Mahogony Three-Drawer Salesman's Sample / Apprentice Chest - Reserved for SS B&G Denmark with its eyebrows

with its eyebrows

winding its way up and around the R from its cross-hatched pot below would be the perfect thing to hang in the room of a child with a first name starting with "R

It is shallow enough to make it perfect for displaying a selection of favorite rocks

and all things in between for more than thirty years

its bottom side

Antique Mahogony Three-Drawer Salesman's Sample / Apprentice Chest - Reserved for SS B&G Denmark with its eyebrowsThis gorgeous three drawer mahogany salesman's sample chest would have been used by a furniture maker as a visual aid to help make sales. Tabletop chests like these were also often "apprentice chests," created by furniture makers in training before undertaking full sized versions. Just stunning, I believe this one dates from the 1830s 1850s. It features three drawers (numbered in pencil on the back) with dovetailed corner joints and turned mahogany