Wood Species

[dave oneill]

What wood species is this, its from the 20's

[Andrew Hughes]

My guess from a thousand miles away is Walnut.
Not American walnut. European walnut maybe even French walnut.
It doesn’t look a hundred years old. Maybe I’m too far away
Good Luck

[Zachary Hoyt]

I was thinking maybe walnut, or maybe maple with a dark stain?

[John TenEyck]

The top is veneered. Who knows what the rest of it was made from, but my guess is something that was low cost.

John

[dave oneill]

That would be my guess too. They used alot of walnut over red gum wood in the 20's. This table has been lightened. The majority of the ones I have seen have been dark. Not sure how you get a darker wood to look light but I have seen it done.
I have seen mahogany finished to look like oak believe it or not.

[Mark Wedel]

Walnut will lighten with age/exposure to sunlight. So if that table was next to a window, the sunlight might have bleached it out somewhat.

[dave oneill]

Is this Walnut also?

[Andrew Hughes]

The chair does not look like walnut.

[Justin Rapp]

Is this Walnut also?

Not with that grain pattern. Oak or ash with a dark stain?

[Mel Fulks]

U.S. Southern pine.

[Jim Becker]

Is this Walnut also?
Ash, oak or chestnut would be my guess based on the grain pattern.

[Richard Coers]

The chair is from a ring porous species, the table not. A closer look at the chair would show if it had prominent medullary rays, which identifies oak right away.

[Bill Dufour]

AFAIK all wood from Antarctica is fossilized tropical stuff. What continent are you on?
Bill D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothofagus_antarctica