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<p>[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 102870, member: 37"]This is definitely oak and your drawer sides are also oak. This would typically point toward English manufacture but there are some other things that make me less sure about this. That nice carving detail on the edge is very typical of American Prairie School furniture and not generally found on English examples. The back seen on a couple of your interior shots looks more like ash than oak. This would also point to American manufacture. The organizer looks to have the body made of maple or other similar light color tight grained wood. This could be done in either place but I would think it more typical of American make. </p><p><br /></p><p>All this leads up to me not being entirely sure about where it was made. I would tend to lean toward American due to the reasons above but also due to the fact that provenance says that it has been in one family for generations. A lot of antique English furniture came here in the last 50 years. I would think very little came over as new furniture over 100 years ago.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 102870, member: 37"]This is definitely oak and your drawer sides are also oak. This would typically point toward English manufacture but there are some other things that make me less sure about this. That nice carving detail on the edge is very typical of American Prairie School furniture and not generally found on English examples. The back seen on a couple of your interior shots looks more like ash than oak. This would also point to American manufacture. The organizer looks to have the body made of maple or other similar light color tight grained wood. This could be done in either place but I would think it more typical of American make. All this leads up to me not being entirely sure about where it was made. I would tend to lean toward American due to the reasons above but also due to the fact that provenance says that it has been in one family for generations. A lot of antique English furniture came here in the last 50 years. I would think very little came over as new furniture over 100 years ago.[/QUOTE]
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