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<p>[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 4335108, member: 6444"]When I recognized this as having been grain painted, I believed rosewood was the most likely option, as I said above. Bear in mind that rosewood was being heavily harvested and used in furniture in the second half of the 19th century, so I still that is the most likely possibility. Even then rosewood was expensive compared to native US woods, so upgrading with paint to look like an expensive imported wood would make sense. (pic from <a href="https://www.core77.com/posts/25477/An-Introduction-to-Wood-Species-Part-8-Rosewood" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.core77.com/posts/25477/An-Introduction-to-Wood-Species-Part-8-Rosewood" rel="nofollow">https://www.core77.com/posts/25477/An-Introduction-to-Wood-Species-Part-8-Rosewood</a>)</p><p><img src="https://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/2013/09/rosewood_3spiderweb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/2013/09/rosewood_2sapwood.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 4335108, member: 6444"]When I recognized this as having been grain painted, I believed rosewood was the most likely option, as I said above. Bear in mind that rosewood was being heavily harvested and used in furniture in the second half of the 19th century, so I still that is the most likely possibility. Even then rosewood was expensive compared to native US woods, so upgrading with paint to look like an expensive imported wood would make sense. (pic from [URL]https://www.core77.com/posts/25477/An-Introduction-to-Wood-Species-Part-8-Rosewood[/URL]) [IMG]https://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/2013/09/rosewood_3spiderweb.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://s3files.core77.com/blog/images/2013/09/rosewood_2sapwood.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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