Posted 5 years ago
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I am trying to figure out what exactly this may have been used for. The drawers are shallow with no sides and there is a hole on both sides of each. Been searching to find a simalar drawer with no luck.
I think I've seen something similar to this which was a storage/file cabinet for sheet music...?
https://www.google.com/search?q=sheet+music+cabinet&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiXs6KjlOffAhVL64MKHdQECdIQ7Al6BAgFECc&biw=1252&bih=578
Thank you! I searched for everything else except sheet music. If by any chance you have any idea why theyd leave off the sides or have a hole I’d love to know. I just find it so odd that similar cabinets for prints and maps don’t have this.
I *think* (but am not certain) that the side-less drawer/shelves are simply a means to maximize the storage capacity of the cabinet -- their smooth thin bottoms fitted into the grooves on each side (instead of conventionally constructed drawer 'boxes' in frames) allowing nearly all the inner space to be used. The holes at the front of each, I believe, allow one to lift the front edge of the whole stack of music stored in each by poking a finger up from beneath, making it easier to remove the stack from the shelf.
It very much is a collectors cabinet and called that. The holes may be to push the prints or butterflies up as one removes them. They used to make a lot of these when they were popular all the way up to the 1040's !~
To 1940's.