Keeping in mind you get what you pay for (and often less), I was dismayed to find this item was made in Vietnam! Where I had expected solid slabs of wood, (the top and the shelf), was a composite of little pieces glued together of some exotic wood, each absorbing the stain in a different way. One of the screws would not go all the way in when I assembled it.  I got what I paid for: In a perfect world this Stickley style hall table would have been made in North Carolina of good old American Ash.