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Can anyone tell me what this piece was originally designed for? I bought it an estate sale and no one knew where it came from originally or its purpose. It's very old with newer glass. The shelves are very deep and it is slightly A framed.

Cathy DeLair Sage Georgianna · Answer

It looks like the top part of a tall secretary. I have a piece similar to this.

Kathryn Kiser · Answer

Jelly cabinet for a table in the pantry

Carole Alden · Answer

Show off your guns, books,  collection ect. Very  nice piece.

Jansings · Answer

it looks like a gun cabinet

Mary · Answer

Curio Cabinet?

Peggy · Answer

May have been a pie safe. They usually have tin punch instead of glass in the panels

Jeanne Martin · Answer

I'm with Peggy.  Looks like a pie safe and if it has new glass the tin panels may have been removed due to damage.  One thing tho, I have never seen a pie safe that shape (smaller at the top).  So maybe it's not.

Mary Beth Carrier · Answer

As Peggy said earlier my guess would have been pie safe, but The one I inherited from my great-grandmother does have a couple of sm round vents in the back that would help the pies cool down after being baked.
My second guess was pickling cabinet. You mentioned the shelves are deep so this really makes sense because  they would be able to put a few rows of their canning jars full of goodies on each shelf.

Glenice hanna · Answer

I have an odd cabinet also . sometimes they were just built to fit the space they had.

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Lissa · Answer

A recycled gun cab?

Judy Gordon · Answer

To me, it looks like a large curio cabinet/bookcase

Betty · Answer

I agree with Lissa - gun cabinets often have the two drawers at the bottom for ammo, etc.  Also, angle out at the bottom because of the gun stock.  Someone may have removed the internal notched shelve that would have kept the guns upright.

Carol · Answer

It could have been an old 'pie safe' and someone replaced the punched tin panels with new glass

Carole Alden · Answer

Looks like pine from here which means it probably isn't that old.  Pine is cheaper, not as hard.

Leona · Answer

Pie safe

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