Not an antique

[cogar]

A Bird's Eye maple gunstock will cost a pretty penny also.

[wendy177]

Tales godbless those men who did the painting for Ms. Winchester must have been a pain staking job!!!! Cogar have never seen a gunstock from bird's eye !! would love to see one close up.

[cogar]

Wendy, this is the best picture I could find. There are a lot of pictures out there that people are calling Bird's Eye maple but I wouldn't. Anyway, this is what it should look like. And I have seen better ones than that with the little "eyes" all over it.

[D&b antiques]

That is Nice !

[cogar]

Oh, and ps, the prettiest and most expensive Walnut gunstocks are cut from the stump of the Walnut tree. They actually dig the stump out of the ground and saw it up.

Walnut is highly sought after but the stumps and trunks are particularly prized. They contain what is called burl wood. Burl wood is sliced into thin strips called veneer. This veneer is used for the wood trim on high end automobile dashboards and furniture. A single walnut tree stump can be worth as much as 10,000 dollars.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090709162114AAHmO4m

[wendy177]

cogar  BEAUTIFUL!!!  My husband & I need to start a Walnut tree farm!!!!!