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Oak Rockwell-Wabash Co. Vertical Filing Cabinet

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Oak Rockwell-Wabash Co. Vertical Filing Cabinet
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For your consideration is this very nice quarter-sawn oak eight-drawer vertical filing cabinet, made by Rockwell-Wabash Co., Chicago, Illinois, circa 1904. The piece features solid wood construction with eight full-sized drawers with original hardware opening on wooden glides. In a 1904 advertisement in the journal, "System, The Magazine of Business", Rockwell-Wabash touts their "Vertical Filing Systems" with an image of a single four-drawer vertical file. The vertical files were apparently designed to fit together to create custom-sized vertical filing systems. The unit for sale today appears to have been two such units fitted together and had possible been part of an even larger system. The cabinets are in good solid condition, having been recently refurbished. The unit measures 52" tall x 33" wide x 28.25" deep.