<p>It sounds like a an Eastlake piece.</p>
<p>If it is an Eastlake Piece, putting a piece of marble on top would be very appropriate. (Though the East Lake pieces with which I am familiar do not use veneers. Perhaps that came later and the veneered pieces were inspired by Eastlake, whose designs were very popular)
I think we need a photo!</p>
<p>I don’t know Eastlake, but when we lived in England it would be the equivalent of a piece from Wales.</p>
<p>Honestly it looks like a Welsh piece. Like I said it has Barley twist legs, and the doors have the typical raised crest on it. The drawers are dove tailed, but have no markers regarding a maker. I have yet to get under the thing to see if there is a manufacturer mark…guess I should do that now before I go any further.</p>
<p>You can also tell from the dovetails that it is two types of wood, the side seem to be pine (yellow and soft), but the front and back seem to be oak or hardwood. Which again tells me this is not an expensive piece.</p>
<p>Pima, this is amazing. I have a piece that sounds identical to the one you’re describing - twist legs, doors with a raised crest. Mine has two doors with shelves, then two drawers at the top. The very top has scalloping around the edges. It came from my parents who got it many years ago from an antique place, and they said it was Welsh. The entire piece is oak, though, with no veneer.</p>
<p>B&P, that does not sound like Eastlake at all! It does sound like fun. Where will you put this piece when it is finished?</p>
<p>Welsh dressers are normally solid wood. At least every real one that I’ve ever seen was. Since they are country kitchen furniture, they are unlikely to be veneered.</p>
<p>Do the dovetails look hand done, or machine made? Are the broad or do they come down to very fine points? When you speak of the sides being different wood from the front, are you talking about the drawers, or the case? It is not uncommon for the back of the case and the sides and bottom of drawers to be a cheaper wood, even in fancy period pieces.</p>
<p>We really need a picture! :)</p>
<p>Not a welsh dresser, consolation. Looks more like a nice hunt board. I’m positive this is not anything special, based on the veneered sides and top. Just a very interesting piece that Pima literally almost ran over. Mostly like those pieces you find in some country antique store that charges you a ton of money for something just because it IS old, not because it is worth it. I’ll admit, is has some character.</p>
<p>Pima was on her way back from town (we live out in horse country in N. Va, windy roads and farm land, not heavily traveled) when this ppiece was just lying there in the middle of the road. Obviously some person either taking it to the dump, or to some furniture restoration place for some TLC, and it fell off their truck. Pima stopped to move it off the road, someone else pulled up in their pick-up to assist, asked if she wanted it, and voila! I arrive home that night, open the garage doors to go inside, and I’m blocked by a 6 foot long, 4 foot high hunt board! Almost like am “I Love Lucy” episode, cause I almost shouted, “Pima! You got some ‘splainin’ to do!”</p>
<p>Front two legs are spindled, nice scroll work on the front. Two large cabinets (about 12 inch wide, 2 1/2 feet high, no shelves, but that can be easily fixed) on either side (the doors are the ones with the raised crest Pima mentioned, 2 large drawers in the middle (about 8 inches high, 3 1/2 feet wide) </p>
<p>Like I said, needs LOTs of TLC. The veneer is coming off the top and badly damaged (hence my intent to sand it down to level and put a piece of granite matching our kitchen on top). The sides all need work as well, and the front veneer is a mess. Forst thing I need to do is repair some minor damage to the support cross pieces on the bottom and the trim pieces. And it is obvious to me that this piece once had a backsplash that went missing in action (the width of the top is about an inch short from the back; looks like an obvious notch for a back piece). Can’t decide if we want a graanite piece there as well, or (if I’m reeeeeeaaly lucky) buy a standing scroll saw and make a new one in matching wood.</p>
<p>Issue becomes what I said before: Pima tends to get like Lucy on “projects” when she gets these “brilliant decorating ideas”. Can’t tell you how many times I came back form deployments while in the AF to find her “latest”, which was “nearly done, it just needs me to finish it up”. (It became our running joke: “OK, honey, I’m back from the war. What did you do to the house, and what do I need to do to fix it?”) She was already tackling the top of the hunt board by the time I came home that night and had a chance to look at what needed to be done to do it right (my concept of “right” is diametrically opposed to her concept of “right now” 
) Pieces of veneer all over the garage floor. </p>
<p>We’ll keep you posted how it turns out. Need to get the camera out for “before and after” shots. Better yet, I now have another opportunity to convince Pima I need to increase my tool collection. (My other philosophy about doing it right; you need to start with the right tool. At least Pima understands this!)</p>
<p>Is it Engish Oak or American Oak? The grain is quite different and English oak is more walnut in color. The grain is tighter in English oak. I also love southern walnut but you said it was oak. So it’s not a buffet but a huntboard? Taller legs? I don’t know why I’m asking you this except that I love antiques and I can’t buy anymore because my house is full of them so I have to shop vicariously.</p>
<p>Love Bullet, but he does not know the difference between Barley Twist and spindle. IT IS BARLEY TWIST. He also does not know the difference between a Welsh dresser and a Hunt board…(love you honey)…now you all are also getting a close up look into our madness on our renovating and MY Lucy projects :D</p>
<p>It is not a tight grain, so I doubt it is English Oak.</p>
<p>Just looked at the dove tails with Bullet…they are not mass machine made, at least not reproduction. They vary in size and hash marks. Definetely 2 woods, front and back are the same, but the sides are probably pine since they are softer. You can also see, that the back board is not one full plank, but 2 smaller planks placed together. </p>
<p>Our guess is that it is an early 1900’s piece, maybe up to the 30’s. I am guessing the 30’s since the 40’s that style was no longer common for the retail market, and the Hall stand I bought in England has the same type of wood, legs, stain and cross beams with the original bill of sale glued inside for 1921.</p>
<p>We are also guessing that it did indeed for all of a truck since there is a sticker, as if it was being auctioned or tagged. Plain white with a number and letter, which is typical for auction/estate sales. I am not about to place an ad in the paper FOUND one welsh dresser…and to be honest it took me 15 minutes to lug this thing off the road and into the truck. Anybody who dropped it was long gone. Bad on me I know, but I did it anyway.</p>
<p>Does it look like this? (Go down to the second item.)</p>
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<p>How goes the project, Pima?</p>