There's simple classic beauty in this cabinet, though I wish I could have seen it when it was new:
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The manufacturer's label tells you everything except what this thing is.
The McDougall Co. manufactured various models of useful kitchen furniture.
However, open up the top door and look at the heavy insulation on its interior surface …
… I think we've got ourselves an ice box here. This compartment would hold the block of ice, carried in by the iceman's tongs there.
The lower compartment, with an equally insulated door, would hold the perishables — though this one now holds imperishables.
At the bottom, a hinged panel that probably hid the pan that caught the dripping water as the block of ice slowly melted. Some small child in the household was charged with emptying out the pan before it overflowed.
Ant's-eye view:
I'm photographically obsessed with these clasps on the door. I can't rest until I've posted an artsy version of one:
… Ah, at last.
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