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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluemoon, post: 175076, member: 1296&quot;]I was (and Am) hesitant to put this up here because I know most people here don&#039;t have a great deal of experience of nordic antiques and are quick to jump into conclusions. I just hope we can all discuss this from a neutral point of view and read the entire post + view the links before commenting.</p><p><br /></p><p>I bought a country-ish pine dresser that&#039;s supposed to be from the late 1800&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>The seller (store owner) has a lot of experience of this type of furniture and woodworking, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some (a lot) of the wood inside the cabinet looks very flawless and light in colour to me. Some (less) other parts look darker and what I might expect 120-year old wood to look like from my short experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>Several things about it rub me the wrong way so to speak: One of the major ones are the &quot;feet&quot; of the dresser. The unpainted parts look very pale to me as well. Some of the lighter parts are in bizarre spots that I wouldn&#039;t assume were redone or something, like the back of a decorative column in between the two doors.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hinges have bizarrely two different sorts of screws. At least 30% of the screws used in the hinges are modern-looking ones. Elsewhere I&#039;ve seen some big old-looking iron nails and smaller ones that look more neatly made and round at the top.</p><p><br /></p><p>The hardware (handles and such) are original 1890&#039;s grotesque renaissance revival style ones, but of course that has very little to do with the wooden parts. The screws connecting the hardware are those that I&#039;ve seen in 1890&#039;s furniture as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the seller said that because most people use these as linen closets, he usually treats the interior with something (I can&#039;t remember what, might have been either baking soda or some detergent) to make the wood less stained and such. But is it all that?</p><p><br /></p><p>The back of the dresser almost looks more worn and deeper in colour than the bottom. Is that usual?</p><p><br /></p><p><b>If</b> this was a reproduction, it&#039;s clearly a very determined custom-made project and probably made with different motives than most repro&#039;s. I still don&#039;t understand why someone would go through the effort of making such a piece later on, hand-carving some of the details and using old hardware and what I&#039;m pretty sure is a drawer that is definitely old (the rest of the dresser might be as well).</p><p><br /></p><p>Another <b>assumption</b> is that the piece has been restored heavily somewhere in the past 30 years time. I just don&#039;t really understand how some parts that I&#039;d expect to be original look newer than others. There are some cursive writing woodworker&#039;s assembly marks in some of the parts and I&#039;ve seen similar in other antique furniture.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, it&#039;s a very impressive, and for a country pine dresser quite upscale piece of furniture so it&#039;s possible because of it&#039;s good looks that it&#039;s never been stored away in a basement or an attic like most antique furniture at some point. That could explain partially why the wood is in such good shape (conditions). Also it&#039;s from Sweden, which is not the most humid of climates so maybe that slows down the ageing process as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>I M P O R T A N T :</u></b></p><p><br /></p><p><b>I just don&#039;t know how to feel about this, or what to think. I searched Bukowski&#039;s market for similar dressers and most looked slightly darker on the interior or back. However, I found some that have parts that look quite light to me as well. These are all from the late 1800&#039;s:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><a href="https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/452414-skank-nyrenassans-1800-talets-slut" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/452414-skank-nyrenassans-1800-talets-slut" rel="nofollow"><b>https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/452414-skank-nyrenassans-1800-talets-slut</b></a></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Btw, &quot;skänk&quot; means &quot;sideboard&quot; or &quot;dresser&quot; in swedish and &quot;slut&quot; means &quot;end&quot;..</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><a href="https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/504438-skank-nyrenassans-sent-1800-tal" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/504438-skank-nyrenassans-sent-1800-tal" rel="nofollow"><b>https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/504438-skank-nyrenassans-sent-1800-tal</b></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/626389-skank-nyrenassans-1800-talets-slut" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/626389-skank-nyrenassans-1800-talets-slut" rel="nofollow"><b>https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/626389-skank-nyrenassans-1800-talets-slut</b></a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/503676-skank-nyrenassans-1800-talets-senare-halft" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/503676-skank-nyrenassans-1800-talets-senare-halft" rel="nofollow"><b>https://www.bukowskis.com/fi/lots/503676-skank-nyrenassans-1800-talets-senare-halft</b></a></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>After seeing those pictures, what is Your conclusion?</b></p><p><br /></p><p>COULD it be a timber thing? Do different types of pine age faster?</p><p><br /></p><p>The pictures of MY dresser are below. I didn&#039;t enlarge them because the page would probably load quite slowly. Just click on them to zoom in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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