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Mark Mandell - Gone Round In New Jersey

a museum nearby? The restoration/conservation department shoud be able to do that for you.

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Henry Higginbotham

Take several digital pictures of it, with several different light sources (daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, LED, UV, infrared, whatever you've got). Load the images into a photo app and play with all the adjustments for contrast, shadows, highlights, etc. Sometimes it's surprising what you can make show up.

Hoosier cabinet

Ellis Walentine

That piece is an archetypal Hoosier cabinet, right down to its Indiana provenance. Google it. It was a fairly ubiquitous piece of kitchen furniture in its day, particularly in the Midwest.

Ellis

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Jason Roehl

Made just down the interstate from me, too—Lebanon is about 30 miles SE of Lafayette on I-65.

Jason

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Michael van pelt

This piece of furniture is very unique. Not the traditional Hoosier Cabinet. Glass doors, small drawers at top. Two very large drawers on the bottom with tin bottoms and a pull out breadboard. Wooden top. No flour sifter. I believe it must be an earlier piece that perhaps lead to the traditional Hoosier cabinet as we know today. Hoping to find more info. I hope that the number 60 mark on the back might tell us something more. Thanks

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john jesseph

Can you post a pic?

I’d guess, based on this info, it’s a variant of Hoosier Cabinet called a Boone Kitchen Cabinet. Pic is a screenshot from americanantiquites.com.

Are you the Michael Van Pelt who used to sell woodworking supplies in downtown Indy about 25-30 years ago? Superior I think it was called.

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Michael van pelt

Yes me and the same! I now live in Mount Zion Il and operate a one man shop. Supposed to be retired but am busier than ever. Was doing the Wood Working Shows for Arbortech till all the craziness started. Hoping things will return to normal some time soon, do not know if the Wood Working Shows as we know them will ever return.

When I get her all back together I will post a picture. It needs a little work. Mom had some jack leg armature do some repair work....ugh!

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john jesseph

I bought a Delta bandsaw, jointer, lunchbox planer, single stage dust collector, and (maybe from you) a Ryobi BT3000 back in the mid 90s. Wish I still had the bandsaw, sold it to a guy here in Bloomington a while back. I'll buy it back when he is too old to work wood. Thanks!!

I found a catalog from 1917 on the internet. It did not have the model 60, probably need an older catalog to find what you have.

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Sam Force

Welcome to MtZion MVP, I've lived here going on 12 years

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Michael van pelt

Sam. Hope you can stop by the shop sometime I am there most days