This was brought into the shop for my partner to restore. It is a West Indian (Caribbean) mahogany piece, likely built in the mid to late 1800’s. It has been owned by a well-known local collector. He sold it to another collector who did not realize that the top was a separate piece. He tilted it over to move it, and the top came off and crashed down the side of it, causing damage to the top and side.
Mark used local mahogany to repair the damages, and did a nice job. The rounded moulding at the top of this would be interesting to build. I may put it on my bucket list to build one similar. Interesting note: the top is attached with a sliding dovetailed block at either end. It works well unless you tip the thing over!
The mahogany has a very interesting figure to it. I at first thought it was walnut burl. The sides are a veneer about 1/4” thick over a less figured mahogany. You can see, however, that they used some lesser quality pieces of the figured mahogany for the back panels.
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