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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 3651038, member: 5066&quot;]You need to see some new experts, this cupboard, welsh dresser, pewter cupboard, or whatever one calls it is nowhere close to 1650, more like 1850 and later.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>About the same as the top I would guess, mid to late 19th century. The construction is all wrong for &quot;joined&quot; 17th century furniture.</p><p>The Victorians in England were VERY fond of the earlier styles and manufacturers there were happy to supply that demand during the victorian age.</p><p>The earlier style preference was so strong that many fine 18th-century English pieces were defaced by carving in an attempt to &quot;make&quot; them appear earlier, destroying their value in the process. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed or someone who handles early English oak regularly like Marhamchurch who is in Devon, is pretty sure there are others as well closer to London where you are.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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