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<p>[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 160486, member: 37"]I think the table is most-likely post WWII. There was a resurgence in interest in colonial furniture then. It could also be 1970s or later when interest in primitives really heated up. This is also when we began to see furniture being made with recycled lumber and such. I don't know when your grandmother bought this. That may be the most telling aspect for age. </p><p><br /></p><p>The rocker appears to have a multi-board seat made of pine. I think we are also looking at post WWII on this. I doubt an earlier chair would have been pine.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hand cut dovetails on your hutch piece point to this being mid 19th century. It is also pine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="verybrad, post: 160486, member: 37"]I think the table is most-likely post WWII. There was a resurgence in interest in colonial furniture then. It could also be 1970s or later when interest in primitives really heated up. This is also when we began to see furniture being made with recycled lumber and such. I don't know when your grandmother bought this. That may be the most telling aspect for age. The rocker appears to have a multi-board seat made of pine. I think we are also looking at post WWII on this. I doubt an earlier chair would have been pine. The hand cut dovetails on your hutch piece point to this being mid 19th century. It is also pine.[/QUOTE]
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