Notes

Apprentice pieces were used by travelling salesmen as prototypes for the full-size version. Workshops would send out salesmen on lengthy country-wide tours with a miniature of each piece on his sales cart. This meant the cabinet maker could use the smaller form to show off his skills, without the salesman having to transport a full-size piece of furniture wherever he went. Using exactly the same skills and techniques as used on the full-sized pieces, the miniatures offered a fantastic way of potential buyers being able to get a feel of the quality of goods the workshop produced, before committing to a purchase… much like a real life catalogue.