Five early 20th century silver and Satsuma hat Pins; 2 x 1910 Shillings, an enamelled maple leaf, and 2 x Satsuma scalloped plaque featuring mother and daughter (1 chip), stamp to back, other pendeloque shape featuring a dragon, all with steel pins, lengths 28-12.60 in.
- Maple - Maple, native to North America, is a dense heavy timber from light to yellow-brown in colour. It has very little distincive graining unless it is one of the variants such as birds-eye maple or burr maple, so was not used extensively for furniture in 18th and 19th century, where cabinetmakers and designers preferred timbers with more distinctive features such as mahogany, walnut, rosewood and oak.
Birds-eye maple has a seres of small spots linked by undulating lines in the grain, is highly sough and is used as a decorative veneer. Burr maple has larger and irregular grain swirls than birds-eye maple.
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