Video of a vintage writing desk with secrete compartments

[jbett98]

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[Navman]

What a piece of work!

 

[frauhunter]

Wow. Looks like a prop from National Treasure. Sign me up for two of those...

Ex Gladio Libertas

 

[Caveman Jim]

I am a woodworker but that was built by skilled craftsmen!!!! Awesome!!!

 

[IronMonster]

Skilled craftsmen? It would take a team of master craftsman a year to build that thing. Skilled is the understatement of the year. I bet you'd be looking at the cost of an average home to reproduce that thing to the same level of quality today.

 

[spectra]

That looks like a work of art but what happens when it breaks Back then things were built by hand and people used there minds to figure things out....Today it has to be drawn up on a computer and all the parts cut out by a machine

 

[jbett98]

Here's a modern example of real engineering craftsmanship and long term commitment to a dream.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...WkwkqwwyODgXlwKI6mhw6TA&bvm=bv.82001339,d.cGU