Can you help me identify this sofa?

I'm hoping someone can help me learn more about this sofa. We may be selling it and I'd like to be able to define it properly and assess its value. My father purchased it from an antique store in Toronto some time in the early-mid 1970's. Its original fabric was damaged beyond repair and he had a restorer recover it with fabric that was a replica of the original. The original horsehair stuffing is still in it. (It's more comfortable to sit on than it looks.)  I think the wood is Rosewood, but not sure.  Any information about its age, style details etc. would be greatly appreciated.

Identical flower carvings to my set...

...I might be right and I might be wrong, but I strongly suspect that my set (and, by extension, yours) is an example of work produced by Elijah Galusha's shop in Troy, NY, back in the 1850s-1860s.  I'm still hoping that someone can prove me right or wrong some day.

I'll see if I can't find a link to my set here on the forum.   See here --> http://www.victorianforum.com/index.php?topic=25.0

Yours appears to me to be rosewood (but I can't really tell) with finer carvings than mine.  If you ever opt to re-upholster again, you might like to consider the button-tufted look.  My set has the original horsehair upholstery & stuffing.  I suspect that your settee originally had buttons in the seat back too.

Thank you,

Jason

Thanks, Jason.  I do see the similarity to your pieces, which are lovely.  An Upstate New York maker is quite possible, being so close to Ontario.  And looking at other pieces online, I've wondered if this piece originally had tufting and the restorer omitted it.  I did see this sofa in its original state but I was only about 12 years old at the time, so can't remember if it was tufted - just that it looked like it had been stored in a barn for years and used as a nest by various animals - the seat was entirely shredded.  The restorer did manage to salvage all the horsehair stuffing, however.  And unfortunately, we don't have the set, just the sofa.

Tweaked the photos to be a little easier to review.  If I'm not mistaken, where the crest meets the back you can see some lamination layers.

The closeup of the crest looks like it shows an old break/ repair running across the middle of it.

I suspect that those breaks were fairly common.  One of my side chairs has an identical, horizontal break through the crest.  This is probably related to the frames being solid walnut (or rosewood) as opposed to a laminated material.  Maybe Belter threw one of these out of his shop window at about the same time that he threw his own product out...so as to illustrate the advantage of his laminated construction.

- Jason