More elaborate antique furniture had highly decorative kinds of pulls, often in cast or worked in brass and sometimes in silver or porcelain especially if European. And a person just tugged the knob until a cabinet door or a drawer opened. Most wooden pulls were stained to match the surrounding cabinet surface. Such pulls were held in place by a passing a screw (or earlier, a metal spike) through the wooden door, usually from behind. But in the past, drawers and cabinets stuck-at least in times of high humidity when wood tends to swell.Ĭupboard furniture of the past generally had wood or metal knobs, often in the form of rounded balls but also in decorative shapes, sometimes with a small matching backplate. ![]() The modern acrylic and metallic finishes of today are sleek, and doors and drawers usually open and close easily, but older wooden furniture, when it was new and as our antiques today, will stick and require extra strength or rattling to loosen and open. Pulls were necessary because furniture was made of wood, and wood surfaces tend to stick-a lot. These ranged from special keys to knobs to handles of word or mental. But from pre-Victorian times up to WWII, nearly all storage furniture had various kinds of small handles to pull open cabinet doors, armoires and drawers. Today, we often use magnets to hold a cupboard door closed, and if a surface has enough variance, we use our fingers to flick a door open. ![]() ![]() Modern chests sometimes have no pulls to assist in opening the drawers….no knobs or handles to tug open a drawer or cabinet door.
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