Chart, Instructional

Description

Pine dovetailed frame to which is hinged (iron butt hinges) a two-panel door with a pine frame, basswood (?) panels, a between-centers turned knob of wood, and an iron or steel hook which pivots on a flat-head wood screw in end of door and hooks to another flat-head screw on end of frame. Frame has no back but has rebates along the inside edges of the top and bottom frame rails. Door frame is through mortised and tenoned but unpinned at corners; center stile is blind mortised and tenoned into rails. Panels are flush with frame inside, set back 7/32" outside, Frame edges around panels are beveled. Charts fastened to inside of door with two views of "Brain of the Horse, Enlarged" along with commentary "From Blaines Veterinary Art", printed in Boston.