Yes I'd agree it's likely of European origin. I think maybe it's cherry with burled walnut insets but I'm not sure. I'm pretty good with lumber but the light color sort of has me thrown.
Tight fit doesn't even begin to describe it. I didn't intend to buy it really, so I hadn't measured the spot for it. I figured they would have more on it than I wanted to give. I went to another estate sale in Ann Arbor that day and couldn't stop thinking about it. So I called the guy who runs the company that had it and it hadn't sold yet. I think he was worried it wouldn't move so we haggled a bit on the price and I drove to a rural area outside Jackson to see it in person before sealing the deal with cash.
When the delivery guys brought it up yesterday it was just a hair bit too tall to fit in the only place I had where it would work. We took it back apart and rolled it over, screwed all the caster mounts off and it slid in there without enough room to put a sheet of typing paper in between it and the shelf.
The only other piece of antique furniture I've ever seen that had dead game scenes on it is a long table and six chairs in quarter sawn oak that has pairs of dead mallards carved into the backs of the chairs. That ain't for sale sadly, but my place is too small for it anyway.
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I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be; virtuous enough; swore little; diced not above seven times a week; went to a bawdy-house once in a quarter--of an hour; paid money that I borrowed, three of four times; lived well and in good compass: and now I live out of all order, out of all compass. Falstaff - Henry IV
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