Antique Collecting
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A severe winter in 1709 was responsible for the destruction of
a great number of walnut trees in Europe, and was followed by
the French prohibiting the export of the wood. To replace this
source of supply, the American variety of the tree, which was
already being sent to England in increasing quantities, was used
instead. American walnut is not unlike European, and often cannot be distinguished from it. Some of it is quite free from markings, and this variety is often mistaken for mahogany when used
in pieces of furniture made at the time mahogany was being
introduced—about 1730-40
ABOUT fifty years ago, when the subject of English furniture
first began to be studied and to be written about, it was divided
conveniently into four distinct types. One writer called his books
on the subject The Age of Oak, The Age of Walnut, The Age of
Mahogany and The Age of Satinwood. It is not really quite as
simple as that, for each of the so-called Ages overlaps the others
and it is quite impossible to lay down strict dates as to when any
one timber was introduced or when it finally, if ever, went out of
favour. However, these clear-cut divisions do make it easier to
deal with the subject, and it may be as well to keep to them;
bearing in mind that the dates given are no more than very rough
guides.
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