Identifying wood in a serving fork handle…
Hi… Here is a serving fork set from the ’50s or ’60s… Can anyone identify the wood? TIA…
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It could be rosewood. It's meant to look like rosewood, anyway. But really, it could be a lot of things stained to look that way. Do you know where the set was made?
We're guessing Siam/Thailand.
Then I would put money on rosewood. But that's also a common descriptor for more than 20 true rosewood species, and several more that we call rosewood but actually belong to another species. But some rosewood do come from that region.
I agree with John. Rosewood of some sort but you'd have to cut it to find out the exact species, which probably is the opposite of what you want to do.
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