Nothing to do with Parkers....

[Destry L. Hoffard]

But dammit I just had to brag! Scored this gorgeous thing out of an estate sale yesterday.

[Paul Ehlers]

Nice score!!

[Phillip Carr]

Fantastic Destry I’m envious.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

I'd had those dead game pieces hanging there for several years. It's like I made the spot for it before I knew the hutch existed!

[davidboyles]

You scored a gentlemans fine hutch for the better thingss in life. Way to go old chap!!

[Jeff Kuss]

Very nice!

[Tom Jay]

What would you date the hutch to...turn of the century?

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Yeah, I'd say 1890's.

[David Noble]

That is one tight fit under that fur-down!
Great find!

[John Cinkoske]

Is that Butternut? Looks light for Black Walnut.
Nice piece! Congratulations on a great find.
:bowdown:

[Rick Losey]

its likely to be a French or Belgium piece - that style of side board/buffet was very popular there at that time

if so - not a North American wood

[Eric Eis]

Very nice ! Now where in Michigan did you find it..... (and I missed it..) !

[Jerry Parise]

I think that it is European as well. I am an avid collector of American Victorian Furniture and I have seen very few American pieces with game as applied ornamentation. My gut instinct is German. The Germans built many more pieces with game on them.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

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.

[charlie cleveland]

nice find dont many things come along like this...charlie