Request help identifying age and style of antique sideboard

Well, I found two more clues in my mom's house. This picture from Antiques Magazine in 1955 which lists what I guess is a similar piece as an American Hepplewhite. It looks identical.

I also found my grandfather's insurance invoice from 1971 that had its insured value set at $1,500.

 

Think the hinge is a replacement but everything else looks right for a period piece. Is that a single wide board across the back?

 

Agrees, looks period to me & probably american. The drawer construction is very consistent with first half 19th century american, i'd guess 1820-1840.
It's a good example of a period Hepplewhite sideboard, unfortunately, value wise it's about the same today as insure value was in 1971 at auction.
I'd hang on to it, tastes & fashion changes and sooner or later brown furniture is bound to make a comeback.

 

Period to me, too. I could see it as English.

 

Have been going back and forth between whether American or English. The secondary wood looks like it could be pine but a bit odd. Later British furniture often used oak as a secondary wood but you always hear of the term deal secondary woods in early English furniture. Deal is a term for nondescript pine or other soft woods used as secondary woods. I am wondering if that is what we have here.

 

Yeah, it could go either way, american or english but i think, American because, the dovetails are "fatter" than you usually see in english furniture and the secondary wood on drawer is not oak which again, you usually see in english pieces.
That's a problem with photo's & old furniture, you can't authenticate with pics alone, it requires an in person exam. The camera often tells lies with old furniture, i don't know why exactly.

 

It is indeed usually deal on earlier stuff, and that's often Scots Pine. I thought deal from the outset on this, it looks like my own old cupboard. Did we get a photo of the veneer thickness?

 

No, don't think so. Another thing on this piece is the feet, very typical of american to have straight tapered feet where on english examples you often see spade feet.

 

To establish whether it is georgian or late victorian/early 20th century you will have to look at the thickness of the veneer, see if screws are machine made or hand cut and see the method of fixing the handles. Looks small for a period piece, but could be wrong.

 

Well, we all pretty much agreed it was period, till now! lol. What we were trying to figure out is, american or english?
Brad & Bear lean towards english, i lean american.