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<p>[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 73617, member: 37"]I don't really know quite what to think of this piece. I can tell you it looks like walnut and likely is not American. It has some legitimate age to it and could be late 18th or early 19th century in origin. I am getting a bit of mix of styles to this so think this could be early Victorian with some elements of a Jacobean revival style. This would put it to 19th century rather than the earlier date. I am also kind of getting somewhat of a British Colonial feel to this with some exaggeration of form and those quirky head pulls. I am really just throwing this out as a possibility since I really don't know. I don't think the other oval pull is original to the piece. The inlay does not look like rosewood to me. It is hard to tell but it looks more like some kind of fruit wood to me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 73617, member: 37"]I don't really know quite what to think of this piece. I can tell you it looks like walnut and likely is not American. It has some legitimate age to it and could be late 18th or early 19th century in origin. I am getting a bit of mix of styles to this so think this could be early Victorian with some elements of a Jacobean revival style. This would put it to 19th century rather than the earlier date. I am also kind of getting somewhat of a British Colonial feel to this with some exaggeration of form and those quirky head pulls. I am really just throwing this out as a possibility since I really don't know. I don't think the other oval pull is original to the piece. The inlay does not look like rosewood to me. It is hard to tell but it looks more like some kind of fruit wood to me.[/QUOTE]
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