What a lovely way to "gift" yourself! Search for a serial number and then you can research online to see if its a reproduction. As for the cabinet, if its older it should have dove-tailed joints in the drawers. Anyway you look at it she is wonderful and I'm so green with envy! Enjoy! I hope to get one in the future, I did find one without a cabinet but the whole thing was froze up and would not work at all.