"Michael Kilpatrick" wrote in message
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I am trying to identify exactly what wood was used (in 1961) to make the
parquet block floor in our hall and living room, so that we can extend the
hall fairly seamlessly into the extension.

It doesn't look like oak to me - the grain is far too fine, surely - so it
may be one of any number of odd African hardwoods.

Can anyone tell by a photograph?

http://www.ellington-music.co.uk/images/IMG_2110.jpg

If anything the exposure is a fraction on the light side, but you can see,
thanks to the piece of furniture placed deliberately in the shot, that the
parquet is a little darker and a little more on the red-brown side than
teak veneer.

Any suggestions?



Go into Google Images and look at Cherry wood and see if that looks like it.
http://www.sxc.hu/pic/m/d/de/decar66...rry_wood_1.jpg

Don't rule out teak just yet, just because it isn't the same shade as a
known sample of teak.

It is not oak, ash, beech, elm.

mark