Queen Anne High Chest of Drawers

Here is a High Chest of Drawers (Highboy)I built. The original was built in 1748 by Christopher Townsend in Newport, R.I. It is made of Cherry with Maple as secondary wood. It took about 300 hours to build. All joinery is either mortise and tenon or dovetails. I worked hard to avoid any nails or screw, but the back it held in place with nails. All wood started out as rough lumber and I milled all wood myself. Moldings are of my own design, but based on the original. Brasses are from Horton Brasses. Drawers are all wood-on-wood with no glides, per original. I made a little tiger maple foot stool to get to the top drawers. All escutcheons have working locks.