Wood Sample Board

An unusual cabinet maker’s wood sample board, circa 1950, in the manner of Gordon Russell.

This unusual sample board must have been made and used in a cabinet maker’s workshop, based on the diversity and variants of woods included (rather than in a timber merchant for instance). It has been made to a design and to a high standard, and although frustratingly it has no known provenance or history, it feels like it could have been part of the Gordon Russell or a similar workshop. The firm of Gordon Russell certainly used this diversity of woods in their production at around this period.