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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Patterson, post: 88257, member: 1231&quot;]Hello,</p><p>A number of months ago I purchased a piece of furniture blindly from an online auction. The piece was listed as, &quot;A Regency Mahogany Fall Front Bureau&quot;.</p><p>I won the auction and the item was delivered from England to my home in Northern Ireland.</p><p>Upon inspection I noticed a number of things;</p><p>Firstly, the bureau was in fact pine, with only the front veneered with mahogany. The side panels were pine.</p><p>Secondly, the handles on the drawer fronts were not original, as large holes were apparent on the inside of the drawers where older/other hardware had been present.</p><p>The veneer itself varies in thickness, ranging between 1.5mm to nearly 4mm in places. Furthermore the veneer has bowed and warped in places, seemingly pulling greatly on the pine frame, effecting the dovetails in the drawer fronts greatly.</p><p>The practice and science of veneering seems to improve greatly from 1750 onwards, so could this be an earlier piece or something merely of lesser quality?</p><p>Is this possibly a piece of &quot;duty furniture&quot; made sometime before 1721?</p><p>Or is this made using un taxed mahogany post 1721?</p><p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.[ATTACH=full]22447[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]22449[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]22450[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]22451[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]22452[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]22455[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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