Dating furniture legs

The joints were less delicate at first -- fairly wide and blunt, cut crudely with rare exceptions.

But the style developed into a very thin, precise and fragile-looking joint.

In the late 1890s, scalloped dovetails were the rage, but the trend shifted back to the classic triangular shape after a few years.

Hand-cut dovetailing was the default until 1860 when uniform machine-cut joints were introduced.

Today, dovetail joints are machine made, and that fact is what helps to pinpoint the age of the chest of drawers from the attic.

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