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  • REGENCY DINNING TABLE

    11:33 AM PST, 3/11/2008

    CUBAN MAHOGANY IS A TROPICAL FOREST HEARDWOOD AND ONE OF THE TREE MOST VALUABLE TREES TO BE TAKEN FROM RAIN FORESTS, SO IT IS NOT SUSTAINABLE. CUBAN AND JAMAICAN MAHOGANY IS LONG GONE AND THE EXISTING FURNITURE MADE FROM THIS WOOD WHICH IS THE FINEST OF ALL MAHOGANIES IS NOW SORT AFTER AND I THINK SHOULD BE HONORED WITH REVERANCE FOR THE DESTRUCTION WHICH IT'S HARVEST CAUCED. SHIPS CARRIED MAHOGANY WITH SLAVES TO ENGLAND 'FLAME' REFERES TO DRAMATIC FEATHER SHAPED SWIRLS IN THE GRAIN. REGENCY TABLES WERE MADE AFTER THE ABBOLISHION OF SLAVERY. THE CRAFTSMANSHIP IS USUALLY VERY HIGH. i DONT LIKE THE STYLE BUT i AM PROBABLY WRONG. ELEGANCE AND REFINED CURVES WITH TRIPOD SPLAYED LEGS ON BRASS CASTORS IS TYPICAL. A STYLE MUCH REPRODUCED IN OFTEN TASTLESS INTERPRETATION. FINDING AN ORIGINAL WILL BE COSTLY BUT THESE TABLES HOLD THEIR VALUE AND ARE RELETIVELY EASILY SOLD. PRICES TODAY( 2007 MARCH) ARE ABOUT 1 THIRD OF WHAT THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, AND ARE PRESUMED TO BE AT THEIR LOWEST AND ACCELERATING IN THEIR INCREASE, SO PERHAPS THE BEST EVER TIME TO BUY.