A short while ago, one of our Redbridge group's members happened to come across an old veneer trade sample book that contained 84 genuine examples of veneers sourced from all over the world.

This sample book was issued in the 1950's and appears not to have been opened for many years.

This then presented us with a useful reference source of 84 veneer pieces that were all over 50 years old, and not one of them had been exposed to sunlight in nearly all that time. As we all know, sunlight can have a detrimental effect on many veneers over a period of time, so to find some that had only been affected by time and not by sunlight was, for us, an interesting experience.

So that you can share this very useful reference source with us, we have carefully scanned each veneer and accurately matched each one's on screen appearance with its true appearance.

We hope you find these old veneer examples as interesting as we have done. They are displayed in alphabetical order of veneer species.