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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 3548580, member: 5066&quot;]Yep, is.</p><p>If you want to get a sense of early English oak, you gotta go where it is bought &amp; sold and handled every day. There are also woodworkers that reproduce that early furniture using the same tools &amp; techniques used in the 17th century. This style of furniture is &quot;joined&quot; by joiners with green wood riven directly from the tree.</p><p>Once you understand the process used to build it, it becomes clear right away what is period and what is not.</p><p>There are dealers who specialize in these objects, I use marhamchurch because he is in Devon where a rather famous American joiner apprenticed before coming here.</p><p><a href="https://www.marhamchurchantiques.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.marhamchurchantiques.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.marhamchurchantiques.com/</a></p><p>I am sure there are many others all over the UK so wherever you are, I am betting there is someone fairly close by that handles these objects daily.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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