Are you sure it wasn't rosewood? Polished to a satin sheen with [WELL} whale oil of course... ;-)
On Sun, 20 Dec 2015, William Donzelli wrote:
I am sorry, the expiration date on this rosewood/whaileoil joke has passed.
lifetime + 95 ? Derivative works? The machinewas certainly a corporate work, but the joke was individual(s) authorship