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   hammer1 | Feb 22, 2011 07:35am | #1

   Those are hand cut, half blind dovetails. Many would call those European style because of the small pins.

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   SteveSchoene | Feb 22, 2011 08:59am | #2

   Hammer has named them correctly.  But they aren't unusual.  Dovetail drawers were nearly universal in the period before factories began turning out furniture for the masses.  They are still the mark of quality furniture.  .  See the tails--they called that from the shape of the wood left on the sides.  The smaller wedges are the pins. 

   There are machines todmake the dovetails, though most make them evenly sized tails and pins.  If you don't want to learn to do them by hand, there are jigs to allow them to be made using a router.  Inexpensive jigs can make the evenly sized pins and tails, and more expensive jigs can make the dovetails with variable spacing.  Not many machines can make the fine pins on your example.