Excelsior Sewing machine Needle Cabinet. Fabulous

Description

This pre 1900 Excelsior Sewing machine Needle Cabinet is  Fabulous.
Oak 4 drawer cabinet has unique features.  The oal cabinet  is 17.5 wide x 11.5 deep qnd 9.5 high.  The cabinet  has a greenish wash on it that has worn off a lot on top and sides from years of use.  The drawers have more of the wash on  them. Gold lettering on drawers is in old English writing.
Inside the drawers are hand made slide covers that slide up to reveal the holder of the needles.  Each slide is hand lettered either in heavy ink or maybe paint . Pulls are original to case.
The lettering is identical to lettering you see on the old rotating hardware store bolt cabinets.
The bottom drawer is not departmentalized, but designed to hold boxes of back stock.
Here is the unique part of this cabinet. If you will notice in the 4th picture of the inside of the drawer, you will see a slot in the bottom of the drawer of each row.  When you push the drawer closed, a rod pushes all of the sliding doors automatically back into their original positions to cover rhe needle compartments..  Mercantile store spool cabinet needle cabinet