Featured Southern Pine Huntboard

Question for our furniture folks. We have a wonderful estate full of American antiques. I came across this lovely pine huntboard which I believe to be southern - yellow pine. It has square nails which looks like blacksmith nails and there is some old worming damage to the interior sides. The top is multi-board.
What are the thoughts on this piece being southern and 19th century? Approx. height 44.75 in., width 22.5in. Don't know what happen to the depth measurements but I can get them today. Thank you for looking!

 

Very nice but the drawer looks wrong, or perhaps replacement would be a better word.

 

I was surprised to not see any planing on the underside of that drawer.

 

I think this a newer piece made to look old. As stated, the drawer is wrong, as is the top. I would expect to see a single board top of clear pine. This looks like modern lumber with those sap veins running the length of the boards. Would expect to see more wear and tear and some darkening around those nails. Looks like some old wood was used to make the base. Besides the worm holes, I see darkened nail spots. However, those darkened spots don't seem to correspond to the actual joinery.

 

I think Brad's right. The edges of the top look machine-sawn, and the underside of the drawer looks brand new. It could have been replaced, but the drawer sides were done with a nail gun. No one repairing old furniture would be that sloppy. Even homebrew would be more careful.

 

Thank you so much! I know some cabinetmakers like to recycle - sometimes to confuse buyers. I have had quite a few pieces of English 'antique' furniture that were 19th century cases with newer components made to look original. I believe this piece was likely purchased at the height of the antique southern furniture craze. Pieces were sold for a pretty penny. The whole piece seemed a bit strange. I really expected to see some nice dovetails. I have seen some square blacksmith style nails in more primitive pieces but I wasn't sure. The sides of the top looked like circular saw marks. Does the finish look like someone was trying to give it patina?

 

I don't know if it was an actual fake. It may have been done "in the style of".

 

I don’t know enough about furniture to offer a valuable opinion but my immediate reaction was that it didn’t look very old.