Buffet? Sideboard? So many questions.

New member here. Would love to know more about this piece I have. Is it a buffet? A sideboard? What year might this be from? What period? What kind of wood? I’d love to replace the plain glass with something that might more closely resemble what it originally came with. Appreciate any insight you may have.

 

Not a furniture guru but it looks like oak to me.

I think furniture people will want to see the whole back, a drawer side and maybe some shots of the underside. How a piece is put together can help date it

 

I'd call it a sideboard. That glass is definitely not period. I'd be thinking circa 1910/1920 with that quarter-sawn oak and the shape. It may have been refinished too at some point. Probably was. I'm hoping of the original oak panels went smash at some point, and someone who loved it fixed it up with glass panels. The glass looks better than dumping the whole thing. If you were reselling it the glass might actually help, more's the pity.

 

Think circa 1910 is spot-on. Golden oak period furniture. I'd leave the glass alone unless you have something definitely better.

 

If nothing else and you want opaque doors, Command strip some fabric panels behind the glass. No holes and no damage. If the OP wants to go to town:

Glue chip glass would look more period if not more authentic. Ribbed glass would be cool. Seriously cool- reverse-painted glass panels. Something else that would look great if not authentic would be thin panels of another real wood. I can see ebony or natural red cherry in there, or even thin oak with a green stain on it.

 

Nice one. Some kind of lattice work is what it probably came with--or, good old quartersawn panels, perhaps with some carving (that would look nice). Nothing wrong with the glass as it is, but you could spray some colorless shellac on the inside of the glass, for a frosting effect with minimum cost and easily reversible.

 

Thank you all for taking the time to reply! Some have said there would have been a backsplash with the buffet. Where would I look to find something like that? eBay? Facebook marketplace? Other suggestions?

 

Found this in one of the drawers. It’s from Dayton Hudson’s in Minneapolis.

 

Dayton Hudson was a department store, established in 1902. In the past some names of some subsidiaries/other names were: Dayton's, Hudson's, Marshall Fields & Target.

Now you even know the date it was manufactured for the department store: September 5, 1935. So not quite as old as it was thought to be.

 

On the other paw, just to complicate things, a lot of department stores had an "antiques" department back when. Some sold genuine antiques. It's possible this was sold through D&H and it was actually older.

 

This would have been very old fashioned by 1935. Wonder if the tag goes to something else. Can't read it from the photo to tell.