Can Anyone Identify This Ant Cabinet?

An Antique Dealer came to my home yesterday - I was hoping he would
help me identify a cabinet I have. My Uncle bought it over 50 years ago
in an Used Furniture/Antique Shop.
He couldn't. No one else has been able to, either.

I have a collage of some pictures -

Andy Dingley...

Better pictures please! Let the dog see the rabbit!

No idea what it's for - seeing inside the cabinet might help.

The mirror on the top is probably there because there's be ornaments in
front of it and the mirror would reflect them. This is a pretty commmon
feature of 1900-ish middle class English parlour pieces.

The "carving" looks like it's machine pressed, which puts it to 1890+
likewise the spindles which seem to be machine-duplicated, rather than
hand turned. A hand turner would never turn such a bare straight cone.

Other than that, I'd want to see better pictures. How does the joinery
work, how's the brasswork made, what sort of shelves are in there ?

Measurements:

Overall Height: 52"

Width: 20"

Depth:14:

Top Shelf - 20" long, 8 1/2" (side width), 7" middle 12"

Mirror Height: 8"

Posts (2 each side) 8" high

Door" 21" tall

Drawer 4" tall

So, i have a 52" high cabinet, with a small shelf on top, underneath a
mirror (set way in back), held up by 2 sets of 2 posts (finials?). The
door opens, and there are adjustable shelves. There is a key that locks
it. (I have the keys). A drawer at the bottom 4" high.

Only markings 633? on the back.

Fancy 'carvings' all around.

(needs dusting and glass cleaned!) -

I don't understand the mirror: It is way far back, only a very short
person could see into it. 8" high by about 18"'s...(width of cabinet
minus the fancy trimwork).

The top shelf has a 'cutout' on the front - evenly divided 12" wide,
then goes out about an inch.
(boy, i can't seem to describe that very well!).

I hope you can see the pictures clear enough.

I'd like to know what it is! I would also like to sell it due to moving
around and I have no space for it. But it was my Uncle's and another
family member may want it.

anyone have any clues???

Kris Baker...

I have to admit I've never seen anything like it...and parts of
it don't seem to go with other parts. You're right that the
mirrors seem to be in odd places, like part of a piece of
furniture was inserted in the middle of another piece. That
mirrored door would only work for a child. Could that mirrored
door be a replacement?

Maybe someone else has another idea.

mike wilcox...

It looks like a record/music cabinet, these were pumped out by the
thousands during the turn of the 19th Century and sold through mailorder
catalogues such as Sears-Roebuck and Montgomery- Ward.
during the late 19th century

Ronnie McKinley...

You're certainly the last hope, Mike ;)

It's a music cabinet (very late Vicy or Edwardian). Don't need to see the
inside or how the "joinery" was made. The mirrors are nothing usual. It held
records or sheet music, more likely, originally, sheet music and sat beside
the joanna in the front parlour - the superstructure, for the display of the
best family ornaments.

And probably like you, Mike, we've sold hundreds of them over the years, in
all shapes and forms.

Nancy1...

That's what it looked like to me, too - my grandmother had something
similar - stuffed with my dad's sheet music, as I recall.