Dovetailing
There is a rule about dovetailing: the fewer the number of tenons, the older the piece. An early eighteenth-century drawer was joined with one huge dovetail or was pegged together. By 1800 several small dovetails (ranging from three to five) were used on a drawer. Each one was cut out by hand, and the spacing and size of each was uneven.
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