Sulfur inlay

Between 1765 and around 1820, German immigrant cabinetmakers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, used it to decorate the surface of chests.

[2] Commercial reproducers of such chests may rarely re-create this inlay technique as well.

This also reduces the risk of charring the wood with a hotter liquid inlay material.

Overheating the sulfur causes it to darken to brown, and also produces noxious fumes and a risk of fire.

Antiquarians unfamiliar with sulfur inlay have mistaken old examples for varieties of beeswax or white lead.