Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece stencil painted playing cards and then also on the

and then also on the backsides

including unity and prosperity

which stack perfectly to fill their perfectly preserved dovetailed box

as if to steady himself himself from being pulled into the vast unknown

which dates it to 1925

Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece stencil painted playing cards and then also on theI'm not very knowledgable about furniture, tabletop or full scale, but I do know, from looking at a whole lot of tabletop scale chests, that this is of a different ilk than most described as salesman samples; it is truly that, or an apprentice piece, not a piece of doll furniture, and a rare one in my experience for being what I think would correctly be called a step back cupboard, with three drawers below and glass doors encasing three shelves above.