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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;808 raver, post: 12889793, member: 4654&quot;]The most mixed up woods in the antique trade because both have straight grain and figured grain, I&#039;ve even seen well known antique dealers get it wrong. I&#039;m not going to try and explain the difference, I&#039;ll leave links but yours is coromandel and that&#039;s the one you want it to be lol. It&#039;s now extinct, even when your box was made the cost of coromandel was 20x what other exoctic woods would cost, calamander was the lesser alternative. UK box makers would outbid other box makers for the best figured woods, that&#039;s why IMHO London made boxes beat French and the rest of the world. You don&#039;t find Indian boxes using coromandel even though that&#039;s where it comes from. The very best figured coromandel veneers were reserved for the most expensive items like vanity boxes.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>Old french polish does become cloudy, maybe your slope does have a very bad patch on a over all cloudy finish? it&#039;s very difficult to tell from photos. Anyway it really wouldn&#039;t matter if it was coromandel or calamander, the process is the same.</p><p><a href="https://www.antiquebox.org/calamander/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquebox.org/calamander/" rel="nofollow">https://www.antiquebox.org/calamander/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.antiquebox.org/coromandel/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquebox.org/coromandel/" rel="nofollow">https://www.antiquebox.org/coromandel/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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