I have a china cabinet almost exactly like yours. I have searched online, too, and yours is the first one I've seen like mine. My cabinet has it's original, dark walnut finish. The only thing I know about mine is that the furniture store where it was purchased was still in business in the 1930's, but could find no record of it any later. I hope someone can tell us more about our pieces.

It's not a hutch, it's a china cabinet....and you are right, Chippendale-ish about 1930, probably mahogany with some veneer, painted and decorated with decals.

And I believe those "decals" were called cockamamies :-)

No...decalcomania....close! ;-)

@Linda - You are citing the original French word which which then entered the popular vocabulary as cockamamie - which is also a word that means insane/foolish - at least in New York City. I know this because I was enchanted by the word as a child when my mother told me she was putting cockamamies on something.

And I did think it was Yiddish just as I thought aggravation was a Yiddish word - imagine my laughter when I read Portnoy's Complaint and Philip Roth had the same etymological mistake regarding aggravation. :-).

From French décalcomanie (“process of transferring designs onto surfaces using decals”); sometimes erroneously claimed to derive from Yiddish.[1]

cockamamie (plural cockamamies)

1. (US, chiefly dated) A decal, a design that can be transferred to a surface. quotations ▼
2. A foolish or ridiculous person. quotations ▼

Never heard it called a cockamamie....and I grew up in New Jersey almost in the shadow of the Empire State Building>
But Miriam Webster says it a little differently.
In the 1940s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called "decals" or "cockamanies." They were naturally regarded by many as silly novelties. Hence, in time, the variant "cockamamie" came to be used as an adjective meaning "ridiculous."

Interesting that the meaning that I know for cockamamie....silly or ridiculous originally was derived from those silly little temporary tattoos> And I would have guessed the word had a Yiddish origin.

The word cockamamie is Yiddish.

I've only heard the word associated with ideas -- foolish ideas -- who knew!

@lindac92 - I think Websters and my definition are stating the same etymology. The French would have been the earliest usage which then became corrupted into cockamamie when the decals were introduced as a decorative item in the 1940's.