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    A bit of Birmingham's history now in the USA

    Nicely done dovetails!
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    A bit of Birmingham's history now in the USA

    The drawer bottom is pictured and there is a closer view of one edge. The bottom is a single piece, planed flat on both surfaces, but is thicker than the groove in the drawer sides. So the bottom has been further beveled for a width of about 1" (2.54 cm for you folks) to fit it within that...
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    A bit of Birmingham's history now in the USA

    Here are photos of that drawer. There are dovetails on both the front and back. The thin vertical line is common to hand-cut dovetails, in which the carpenter scribed a layout line with a fine knife. I was pleased to see the very tiny pins (triangle-shaped bits of end grain seen from the...
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    A bit of Birmingham's history now in the USA

    Thank you! I do hope the piece isn't a reproduction. The Manor Farm Road label suggests Broadlock exported it, rather than manufacturing it. If the company was at Manor Farm road, then the piece probably wasn't owned by anyone in that neighborhood. In 1990 it was in an American antique...
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    A bit of Birmingham's history now in the USA

    We recently discovered a tag on an antique we bought in the USA, in 1990. It reads, "Manor Farm Road, Greet B'Ham England". There was a business name: "Broadlock Ltd." Google maps shows Manor Farm Road in Greet, Birmingham is a very short street, almost entirely private homes. There are...
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