Impossible to say with photos provided but it doesn't look like oak from here.
The only known bird chest ( out of 20 or so extant) that survived the brown wood people and STILL! has its BIRDS!:happy: At the Brooklyn Museum...
After stripping, guessing they put an oil-based varnish finish on it, they wanted it to look its best when presenting to the world for the 1st...
Agrees, he's an odd duck but knows his trade and has a whole series of Youtube videos. I like watching him too, informative as well as entertaining.
Well, in the case of the MET, context is important here. Mrs Russel Sage purchased the entire Bolles collection (probably the greatest collection...
On the cut-out for the strap hinge, perhaps got a bit over his skis with the mission/arts & craft design OR having too much fun with his router!:p...
Almost anything is possible when it comes to men messing around with wood!:)
Interesting. Guesses hand-built by a trained skilled woodworker, a finish carpenter perhaps? Guesses early 20th C, perhaps to mimic the style of...
There are traces of red paint on the sides of my chest so, I got THAT goin for me!
Not me, not really anyway. In the 1920s, the MET was getting ready to open the "New American Wing" using Eugene Bolles furniture collection as the...
On the paint restore front, things are NOT going well! On my inquiry in what type of paint and what colors were used in a paint restore project on...
Me too.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: We are going to have to agree to disagree! A little Olde English on it's way to the dumpster, eh?:p Yes, that's it!...
LOL, actually, I didn't say that in the "quote box" but I agree with whoever did!:)
The MET has an eastern shore va. cupboard in WALNUT! (very rare) with QA tombstone door panels below the glazed top but it is NOT on view and only...
LOL, well you know, just trying to ease the anxiety of the provincials by creating a furniture fantasy.:writer: Here we have a complete piece of...
BTW, that dentil molding is VERY tricky to do. Lonnie Bird, a nationally known furniture maker, describes how to layout that molding profile with...
I don't know yet (kinda doubt it but maybe?), is taking it slow, steady as she goes, I don't want to push too hard or too fast! :) Included in...
Meanwhile, I have been having a nice email chat with the curator of collections at the Eastern Shore of Virginia Historical Society who made the...
Yahoo? 'nuff said...........
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