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Tiger oak? Questions

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With this be considered Tiger Oak?

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u/pans-hand 23h ago

Quarter sawn oak

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u/Jaded_Training_5626 23h 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 23h ago

1920s to 1940s would be a reasonable timeframe.

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u/Different_Ad7655 22h 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 22h ago

The Cron-Kills Co. Was making that exact style in oak throughout the 1930s.

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u/Different_Ad7655 22h 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/pans-hand 22h ago

I’ll concede to that.

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u/TheToyGirl 20h 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 20h 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 18h 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.