554 - Metal cabinet, dentist’s cabinet, with hinged cover, cream lacquered, 1950s/60s

Metal cabinet, dentist’s cabinet, with hinged cover, cream lacquered, 1950s/60s Metal and glass. Cabinet, dentist’s cabinet, 1950s/60s, cream lacquered, with rounded edges. The lower part with two doors, external hinges, two chrome-plated lever handles and a push latch, on each side a chrome-plated recessed grip. Inside two height-adjustable shelves of textured glass, the left door with two shelves on the inside, the right door with one holder with two and one with four ring openings. The recessed upper part with a transparent, domed hinged cover opening upwards, on top a light cover plate of glass with chrome-plated edge strip. Grey lacquered base, curved towards the front, with silver-coloured edge strips, with castors underneath. Used condition commensurate with age. 116.5x66x44 cm (HxWxD), width with handles 72 cm Cabinets for doctors’ and dentists’ practices were made of sheet steel from the 1920s into the 1950s, among others by ADMI and the Fuchswerke, by EMDA, Baisch and Maquet. Typical of this steel practice furniture are lacquered metal carcasses with chrome-plated fittings, aluminium edge protection, height-adjustable glass shelves, lockable doors and in some cases castors. Some of these instrument cabinets had their own moulded inserts for dental instruments. A practice cabinet by Baisch from 1949/50 is preserved in the Reichert collection.