SplinterGroup: No purpose for this one, yet... The Wood is a mystery...
The cast-off Bureau was NOT Factory made, shows signs of being a home made thing...
But whoever built it, hit all the buttons!

A lock was installed on the only remaining drawer and...

the carcass is rock-solid, no racking, and had some nice detail work on it...
N.H. has a host of American Hardwoods in it's Forests, so it could be a multitude of things... As I said, it resembles Oak and Red Oak, so it's probably a relation... Beech? Chestnut maybe?? 
I don't know what it is (but I wish I had more of it!)
Thanks Steve!
awsum55: It could have gone either way John! There was much consideration before the top was cut-off about up from down...
GR8HUNTER : Some pictures were snapped today of both shops, New and Old, and I'll try to put together a Shop Blog tomorrow...
Thanks again, to Everyone, for taking the time to comment!

Mike, in Concord, NH - A candle loses none of its flame by lighting another candle...