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Birds Eye Maple
Birds Eye Maple or American Sugar Maple describes the very attractive figuring in maple. It has small markings all over its yellow-brown surface, and was popular during the 1800´s. Closely related in colour and texture to satin-birch and satinwood, bird´s eye maple is more richly figured than the standard variety. The wood of the maple is whitish and responds well to polishing. Maple is indigenous to North America, Canada and northern Europe.
* Widely employed by the 1800´s cabinet makers both as a veneer and in the solid
* Has distinctive tight light-brownish spots, caused by branch bud initials, which resemble birds eyes when cut
* Fashionable in Britain during the Regency (1790 – 1830), and in France during the reign of Charles X (1824 – 1830). It was also used in the Victorian and Edwardian bedroom suites
* Bird´s eye maple is also popular today for picture frames
