Furniture With Knapp Joints
Knapp Joint Old Dresser&Mirror..
Furniture with knapp joints. I have read thru many threads on this site and noticed these drawers look to have the Knapp joints. The rounded dovetail joints, known as Knapp Joints, indicate this piece was made between 1870-1900. In 1871, the Knapp Dovetailing Co.
If you have an antique piece of furniture that features drawers with a curious-looking half-circle joint, you can be almost certain that it was made in a North American factory between 1871 and 1900. To this end, in the later 19th century, Charles Knapp invented and perfected machines that produced what came to be called, oddly enough, the Knapp Joint. In fact, there was a dovetailing machine patented by Charles Knapp and Nathan Clement that was used to make the joint.
A career change gave Matthew Lawson the opportunity to establish Knapp Joinery in 2017.. Invented a joint that has several names – scallop and dowel, pin and scallop, half moon. In the early 1900s the cove-and-pin fell out of favor and the machines along with it.
Wood panels stitched together, usually with copper wire, and glued together with epoxy resin.: Shortly before 1900, craftsmen began using machine-made dovetail joints. So now you know that a piece of furniture with those odd little drawer joints was made between 1871 and 1900 without a doubt.
The Knapp joint, patented by Charles Knapp of Waterloo, WI in 1867, was a huge advance for the furniture industry because it could be made quickly by machines called routers, which could create circular cuts in wood. The Knapp Joint is also called half moon, or pin and cove joint. Each of these drawers is constructed with Knapp joints and has a swan neck pull with molded metal backplate.
It was the first machine made joint. Joints are decorative and very strong. Can you please confirm the era, wood, and what current resale value would be?

