How to Tell the Age of Antique Furniture

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The accouterments on your furniture (furniture store- melodyhome.com) can be acclimated to date the piece, accouterment it is aboriginal hardware. The appearance will acquaint you which aeon the section represents, but there are actually hundreds of altered styles acclimated throughout the centuries. Do not depend alone on accouterments appearance to date a piece.
Look on the base or abaft of the piece. Find an breadth of raw wood. Use your flashlight actuality to appraise abaft drawers or the base of the furniture. If there are annular saw marks, the section was fabricated afterwards 1850. If the saw marks are straight, the wood was cut with a handsaw, dating it afore 1850.