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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 9764107, member: 6444&quot;]I’m not interested in a pissing contest. I was NOT being sarcastic or trying to attack you. I simply don’t see an authentic piece of antique furniture here.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is rare to see adequate pictures on this forum, part of the reason I don’t post here much. And when I looked at your previous posts, you ARE capable of posting adequate pictures. You did it here <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/table-found-in-vermont-please-help-me-date-it.80599/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/table-found-in-vermont-please-help-me-date-it.80599/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/table-found-in-vermont-please-help-me-date-it.80599/</a> and because you had good pics showing top, bottom, back, inside, drawers, construction, etc. it was correctly identified as a 20th century Chinese import table with pegged construction.</p><p><br /></p><p>But your pics in this thread are not adequate, why is that? Four of your five pics are of the exterior surfaces. Those are always the surfaces that are made to look old. Only your last pic shows any part of the interior, and that shows serious problems: both new and old woods of very different age and type and character. You have NO pics of the back, the base, the full inside, the drawer, the drawer bottom, the drawer sides, the drawer back. It’s not that I don’t see dovetails - it’s that we have NO way to judge construction. These are the details that really matter when judging the age of antique wood. That plus the crudity of carving makes this highly questionable to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t see any mortise and tenons here - the first pic looks like carved pieces falling off a box they were glued onto. Maybe that isn’t what is going on, but who can say from these pics?</p><p><br /></p><p>I would be happy to recommend some good books on evaluating antique furniture, if you are interested.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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