I have some old slabs of genuine LV from the 1980’s woodworkers old stock from upstate NY. I have some cut-off and quick photo’s of it. The color is clear representative of the actual samples.
Weight per board foot ranges from 5.8 pounds to 6 pounds per board foot.
When you cut it fresh you do get a floral like aroma, unsurfaced, untouched in the stack, it smells like old leather bound library books.
LV color does have a wide range to a dark olive brown to a light olive greenish color. Argentine Vera shares the same light olive greenish color, but it does not come in the other form of dark olive brown. I have had both rainbow of colors of LV. Tell tale of Argentine Vera is the face grain has pattern like “feathers” and “chevron like pattern”. Outside of that per Paul, the clearest way to tell between the two species is the end grain- pores on the LV are smaller and they do not touch each other or linked to each other. Vera are arranged vertically and are linked going north and south.
