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   gulfstar | Aug 15, 2023 09:49am | #1

   Can you show a picture of the complete desk ?

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   Ronwoodcraft | Aug 15, 2023 10:27am | #2

   This is as as close as we have to the complete desk right now.

   
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   mikeinohio | Aug 15, 2023 10:28am | #3

   Does the desk have a file drawer? Maybe two file drawers?

   This might be a counterweight to prevent the desk from tipping when the file drawer(s) are fully extended.

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   Ronwoodcraft | Aug 15, 2023 10:31am | #4

   No it doesn’t.

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   3steers | Aug 15, 2023 11:54am | #5

   Is the iron piece behind the center of the drawer? If so, is, or was anything attached to the back of the drawer that would mate up with it?

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   alanmcginnis | Aug 15, 2023 12:07pm | #6

   looks like that is a pull-out writing surface, so could be some weight when fully extended and leaned on, so weight would counter-balance that?

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   phantomtrapper | Aug 15, 2023 12:26pm | #7

   The drawer looks like it might have been used for writing. As mikeinohio suggested, it might be a counterweight, but against someone supporting upper body weight while writing when it is fully extended.

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   john_c2 | Aug 15, 2023 12:42pm | #8

   Yes, writing surface counter balance. The hole is for an inkwell, the grooves for pens.

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   ben_strano | Aug 15, 2023 01:38pm | #9

   You're a bunch of clever people!

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   curmudgeon | Aug 15, 2023 08:37pm | #10

   +1 for John’s response. A weight and a moving part/surface is nearly always a counterweight. Gravity’s a lovely thing… it can even eliminate the need for “unnatural” power a lot of times. I even know where there’s an “automatic” door closer that operates solely with a counterweight.