All of you made very good guesses. There may be more clues but the one giveaway is; the rails are dovetailed into the cabinet. The dovetails are visible when you look at front, on the edges. This is frenquently done by contempary makers to display their craftmanship. The old timers always hid their joints. Some of your other guesses were quite good. The beading is not applied. There are no locks, I couldn't afford that, but the pulls are exactly correct. They come from Ball and Ball who makes authentic replicas and the size is correct although sometimes they are smaller. The finish is lacquer. The sides and top are one single board as would have been done by the old timers, not several joined together. The questions about drawer construction are very good but I didn't show that. The sides of the drawers are also mahagony with hand cut dovetails. The old timers would have used a secondary wood. I have a picture of that I could post if you like. Guess I should have dusted the saw dust off before I took the pictures. Thank you for guessing. You are all pretty good. By the way, there is evidence of plane work. I had to fair the drawers (curve) with a spoke shave. Thanks again.

My3Dogs, I do love that fabric! In the photo the blue leans a bit teal on my monitor, but I like the concept. And thanks Jenny for the visual - I think your chair looks great in a solid! As for the update of my chair, I regret to inform you all that by the time I called the upholsterer to STOP him from going any further until I had more time to think about this, he had one chair almost done. I have a sick feeling about this in the pit of my stomach. :( Everyone else here seems to think a navy chair with buttons is a big mistake, and I have no idea if it'll look good or not. But at least on one chair, that's what I'm getting. How come I had to choose the fastest 80-year old upholsterer in the country??? I hope to God it doesn't look early American with the buttons, as it is not my favorite style. I'm frantically thinking of how to make this better if I continue with navy on the other chair. If I don't go with navy on the second chair, I am stuck with 6 yards of this stuff, one blue chair and one original chair. I don't want to be melodramatic, but I think I'm going to have a difficult time sleeping tonight! Oy!

I don't really know what they're made of. A thick, strong reinforced cardboard? Something else? I just know that if you squeeze, drop or bang them on something, they don't bend, fold in, crease or anything. Oh, I'm sure they would have their limits. I wouldn't let the kids use them for sword-fighting, lol. They are wrapped in a very shiny paper that has a coating on it, almost as if they have been laminated. I accidentally had one sit in a bit of water once and it didn't harm anything but it was probably only in the wet for 3-5 minutes. I think they should last years unless they are super-abused somehow. I have no idea if they would fit in drawers like that. I just measured and the dimensions are 2.5x2.75" and they are 13.5" long. The parchment paper one is the same size around but is 17.5" long. Hope that helps.

If you are talking 6" wide, I don't know that there is one that small. I had some restrictions with my layout because there was a sink and window we weren't moving, so I ended up with a 15" cabinet for a trash pullout. What I didn't think about at the time was this meant even smaller than 15" trash cans...I think my actual trash cans are 11" or 12" wide and deep. But I wanted both trash and recycling, so I think I could have fit a bigger one if I did just one trash can sideways. Sometimes I wish it was a little bigger, but then I like to empty it to the trash cans in the garage often so it doesn't start to smell. So it works fine when you consider that. I thought the size I got might be the smallest trash pullout they make.