Ten-Drawer Museum Specimen Cabinet With Butcher Block Top

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A ten-drawer specimen cabinet from an American museum collection, combining a solid butcher block top with oak-finish veneer drawer fronts … Read more A ten-drawer specimen cabinet from an American museum collection, combining a solid butcher block top with oak-finish veneer drawer fronts and a laminate carcass in a tall upright format. Each of the ten shallow drawers is fitted with a pair of chrome round pulls and an individual label holder — a mix of brass-framed and chrome holder styles reflecting the cabinet’s active institutional history. The drawers are felt-lined throughout, consistent with specimen storage use. A locking mechanism on the right side secures the full cabinet.
The butcher block top — finger-jointed solid wood planks in a lighter timber — provides a generous working surface above the drawer stack. The overall format is the standard upright specimen cabinet configuration used by American natural history, geology, and entomology collections through the mid-to-late twentieth century, produced for the institutional market by American laboratory and museum furniture manufacturers.
A piece with a specific and documented collecting history behind it, the mixed label holders and felt-lined interiors speaking to decades of purposeful use in a working museum context. Suited to a natural history collector, an archivist, a working studio, or any interior that values the functional beauty of institutional objects in a domestic setting.

Dimensions: 23.5w 21.25d 43h

Condition: age appropriate, vintage finish worn, scuffs/scratches, edge wear, discoloration, see photos. See less