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is a classic furniture wood, almost exclusively used for inlays on very fine furniture. It was the most expensive wood in general use for furniture making in the seventeenth century, at which time it was known as princes wood. It is brownish-purple with many fine darker stripes and occasional
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irregular swirls. Occasionally it contains pale streaks of a similar colour to the sapwood, as in the picture.
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