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dsquire:
ANTIQUE DESK FROM GERMANY

     

Unbelievable German ingenuity!
 
Can you imagine buying this desk and having no instruction book with it?
 
And to think the fellow who made this over two hundred years ago did it with hand tools only!!


Cheers  :beer:

Don
S. Heslop:
Someone must've either had alot of money or alot of time for that monstrosity to be made.
AdeV:
That's a bit too gothic even for my tastes, but the mechanisms look to be pure genius. All weights and springs presumably... I wonder how you reset the rotating secret compartments...
Meldonmech:
 
   Don, what a fabulous piece of design, engineering, and cabinet making. It looks like a lifetimes work.

                                Thanks for posting, has it given you any inspiration?

                                                        Cheers  David
mklotz:
Truly astounding work.  Here's its sister piece...
   
     

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