r/Antiques • u/Jaded_Training_5626 ✓ • 20h ago
Tiger oak? Questions
With this be considered Tiger Oak?
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u/pans-hand ✓ 20h ago
Quarter sawn oak
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u/Jaded_Training_5626 ✓ 20h ago
Thank you for your response! Are you able to tell about how old it might be based off type of wood?
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u/pans-hand ✓ 19h ago
1920s to 1940s would be a reasonable timeframe.
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u/Different_Ad7655 ✓ 19h ago
Way off, very late '90s to 1915.. by the 20s it would be mahogany or mahogany veneer for this pseudo highly derivative Neo baroque frenchified style wannabe.. by the 30s this kind of furniture would vanish And by the 40s and 50s be In the second hand shop if not even earlier.
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u/pans-hand ✓ 19h ago
The Cron-Kills Co. Was making that exact style in oak throughout the 1930s.
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u/Different_Ad7655 ✓ 19h ago
I doubt it. This piece is 1905ish in the Neo baroque form of the spirit of that day. By the 20ies they would have transitioned into mahogany as all of the typical fashion of the time .if they were still manufacturing in oak they would be putting out stuff more in the mission style or that of the sticky-ish style. This is what customers wanted for their late arts and crafts houses or colonial revivals.
They have to sell the stuff to the public It had to look current.. these pieces of furniture only had a run of about a decade or so before the styles changed.
There is indeed very very similar stuff offered in their 1905 catalog in Golden oak
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u/TheToyGirl ✓ 17h ago
Nah...loads of oak in 1940's. Most draw leaf dining tables from 1940's are oak.
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u/Different_Ad7655 ✓ 17h ago
Not 2 ft wide panels quarter sawn, no way. Solid oak glued up, stickley style, absolutely all day long. Indeed plenty of oak, solid oak
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u/TheToyGirl ✓ 15h ago
I didn't say the tables were quarter sawn. You just said furniture after 1920's would be mahogany or veneer. Just commenting as 1940's and oak go pretty much hand in hand for a lot of furniture.
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u/Different_Ad7655 ✓ 19h ago
Quarter sawn, possibly veneer but sometimes the dropdown is the only solid board on one of these two of the century desks. They were quite inexpensive in their day..
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u/Odd_Judgment_2303 ✓ 19h ago
Almost all good quality furniture is veneered on top of the wood used for the construction. Cabinet makers who used expensive wood took veneers of higher quality wood yet and covered the pieces in the same type of wood. This charming secretary is from the late nineteenth century or early twentieth. Oak though is almost never veneered. Mahogany and walnut etc. generally are. Cheap furniture is veneered also.
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u/Different_Ad7655 ✓ 19h ago
Yes I understand the value and use of veneer and why it's used especially on a situation like this wear such a board, not glued up stock,would be almost a rarity Much of the furniture of the late 90s in the Golden oak phase on these Neo roccoco, baroque-ish derived forms, was often finished with heavily figured oak, beautifully done with applied ornamentation. The side panels and the rest of the carcass would be a glued up stock and all finished in shellac..
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u/yasminsdad1971 ✓ 17h ago
Quarter sawn oak. Tiger oak is a form of brown oak and has brown mineral streaks.
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u/Primary-Basket3416 ✓ 12h ago
I would like a Pic of the top opened up b4 I render my opinion.
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u/Jaded_Training_5626 ✓ 11h ago
Thank you for your response, I’ve added a second post with additional photos for some reason it wouldn’t let me add them to this post… Sorry about that!
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