Jewelry Boxes Large Sized, for All Your Jewelry, Embellished with English Brown Oak Veneer

It is not hard to find jewelry boxes large enough to organize and safely store your jewelry. But considering the huge size of the box, it would be good to buy one that has some exotic art work done on it to draw attention away from its sheer bulk.

It can be quite challenging for women to organize and store their jewelry. A woman who loves jewelry usually ends up having a zillion tiny boxes and pouches, which come with the jewelry . And she would be constantly hunting for the right pair of earrings or necklaces to go with her outfit.

Women who love their jewelry collection will be delighted to receive a beautifully handmade large jewelry box as a gift. It not only serves as a safe receptacle for the jewelry, it also acts as a showpiece and enhances the decor of the room. However a jewelry box that is carved out exotic and rare wood would be very costly.

You can, instead, go in for a beautiful jewelry box that is made out of locally available white mahogany embellished with some artwork like marquetry. Burls and veneers of exotic and rare wood like the classy English Brown Oak are used in marquetry.

The English Brown Oak (Quercus robur, Quercus petraea) of the Fagaceae family is an interesting example of exotic wood. It is not a wood in its own right but rather an English Oak that is the victim of a fungal infection. Strangely, this fungus – the beef steak fungus – does not harm the tree in any way and seems to only want to colour the heartwood a rich honey brown that is impossible to reproduce with stains. The fungus dies only if the tree is chopped down, milled, and dried out.

It has several names like the White Oak, Brown Oak, Yugoslavian Oak, German Spessart Oak, Pollardok, French Oak, Polard Oak, and the English Oak. The density of this wood is approximately 42 to 45 lbs per cubic foot. The English Brown Oaks from countries like Great Britain, France, Poland, Canada, and Yugoslavia, usually have about 8 growth rings as opposed to the impressive 30 to 40 growth rings of the German Spessart Oak.

It has a very high level of resistance to rot caused by damp environs and the high level of tannic acid in its wood cells can be highly corrosive. The colour of the wood varies from place to place from a light biscuit colored tan to a deep rich brown. It has very beautiful silvery grains that make this wood very attractive for making jewelry boxes or in marquetry. Its age and place of origin can determine the final price of the wood but it is still a very expensive wood.

The true marquetarians, who are the experts in marquetry, love to use the English Brown Oak in their work as it provides a touch of sophistication and charm to their art. It can transform a dull wooden box into a classy piece of art when it is used in marquetry done on the lides of jewelry boxes.

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