Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece stencil painted playing cards Whether created for display in

Whether created for display in a bakery

and would bet they are British based on the phrases and the character of the images

as if to steady himself himself from being pulled into the vast unknown

which stack perfectly to fill their perfectly preserved dovetailed box

There were a number of different makers of "Eye Ointment" in late 19th century England

Step Back Cupboard, True Antique Salesman Sample/Apprentice Piece stencil painted playing cards Whether created for display inI'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.