What's it called? Need to know the name of a particular feature in furniture..

The only thing that comes to mind when recounting the various secretary resto’s I have done is “Pigeonhole”.

Apart from that I’m lost…..

R

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Ryan, There is a name for that feature, and, I’ll no doubt obsess about it until I remember it!

-- Don, Pittsburgh

I got it…...document door!

-- Don, Pittsburgh

Got it. It’s called a “prospect” :-)

there happens to be a museum of early American furniture near my house… They had it identified in an exhibit.

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http://www.woodworkinghistory.com/glossary_P.htm

david click on the link above and scroll down to the brief entry “pigeon hole”. this is a quick and dirty job.

i’m a retired academic reference librarian who is also an avid amateur woodworker, and creator of http://www.woodworkinghistory.com .

seeing your question got some of my old juices going, so—using the few tools i have at home—aronson’s “encyclopedia of furniture” and vic taylor’s “woodworker’s dictionary—i looked the term up and decided to make a small dictionary entry.

when you view the entry for pigeon hole, you’ll see an image from aronson and a definition that i adapted from both taylor and aronson.

i confess though that i am suspicious that this is the end of the story. i’ll keep looking

-- Raymond McInnis Washington State ray@woodworkinghistory.com