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Message:: [QUOTE="Adrian Lewis, post: 2641399, member: 12565"]Being a "British member" I can't see this being English at all. The Georgians were in love with mahogany and finely French  polished to show the colour. The maker seemed overly enthusiastic about his cross-banding skills and forgot the importance of the body wood.  The wood looks to be mahogany but there it ends as furniture  of this period was fine mahogany veneered. English Georgian furniture of this calibre bureau had hand made  fine pointed dovetails. These dovetails are crude. As above, the handles/pulls have been replaced at least once and the present ones are in keeping with early-mid 18thC but the round nuts look too concentric to be hand cut and of the period . An image of a drawer bottom would give a rough guide to an early or later piece whether it/they run NS or EW. The bracket feet are wrong for any English Georgian or  Victorian furniture. The finish on the cock beading is poor. The small brass pulls on the slides either side to support the drop leaf are indicative of circa 1800 either way but what must be remembered, is that a big city design may have taken 10 years or more to filtrate to a provincial 'cabinet maker' in a country the size of America.   Without prejudice, I suggest this is a American early-mid 19thC provincial piece "in the style of". This is a retired professional's critique, not a damning indictment  of the piece itself.[/QUOTE]