Jefferson Spirit Chest

Interesting, I once spent an afternoon photographing the inside of the HMS Nonsuch at it’s museum and got a lot of ideas for different joinery. It may be worth a trip to see the chest in person; unless it is real far away:-)

-- "Checking for square? What madness is this! The cabinet is square because I will it to be so!" Jeremy Greiner LJ Topic#20953 2011 Feb 2

Unfortunately, it is about 1000 miles away. I have always wanted to visit as there are a couple of other items I would like to recreate. Maybe next summer.

I have already built a set of book cases based on the design of Jefferson’s.

I was hoping someone may have visited and had better pictures.

I’ve been to Monticello many times (don’t remember this chest). You can take a virtual tour and see it on the floor.
https://www.monticello.org/site/house-and-gardens/cabinet

That POV is what it’s like if you go. You won’t be able to get anywhere near it to look at it up close. An idea: send a note to LJ Charles Neil, who Monticello asked to make some reproduction items to sell in their shop. Maybe he could give you the name of someone there who could give you info. on it. Heck, maybe Charles knows something about it.