Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece James Thrall Soby with plenty of stains and

with plenty of stains and one small ding to what seems to be a cardboard exterior wrapped in brown paper--as detailed in last photo

and off and away

which I have not taken out of the frame

this horse rather cries out "love me

lined in orange fabric

Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece James Thrall Soby with plenty of stains andI'm not very knowledgable about furniture, tabletop or full scale, but I do know, from looking at a whole lot of tabletop scale chests, that this is of a different ilk than most described as salesman samples; it is truly that, or an apprentice piece, not a piece of doll furniture, and a rare one in my experience for being what I think would correctly be called a step back cupboard, with three drawers below and glass doors encasing three shelves above.