[Arran]

You must mean bookmatched veneer, where they take several slices out of the same pieces of wood in succession, and they flip them over or rotate them to create a mirror image? The name of the outfit is Albert Constantine and Company, they also sell veneer but their photo gallery is quite useful sometimes. Another common species of veneer, at least on Canadian radio cabinets, was Australian Walnut, which is not a walnut at all, it has stripes in it rather like Honduras mahogany, but is not reddish.
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Arran