Beautiful wood, but I am not aware of anything called "African Tiger Eye Mahagony". I might have considered asking the new owners if they wanted the wood. I would have nightmares thinking about them demoing it out to rehab the house. It is a rare board that is 25" wide. I'm lucky if I can find them 20" - and I have to glue them up for something wide like a chair seat.
True mahogany (
Swietenia mahagoni) is a tropical hardwood, growing primarily on few scattered islands in the Caribbean. Cuba used to be the biggest producer, but none has been exported from that island since Castro took over in 1950's. Though it grows in southern Florida, that is the extreme north end of its range, and the trees do not grow large - only 30 to 40 feet. Plus, in Florida it is protected as an endangered species.
The closest you can get to true mahogany in the hardwood market today is big-leaf mahogany (
Swietenia macrophylla), closely related to true mahogany, but growing from south Mexico through Brazil.
There is another close cousin (
Swietenia humilis) that is a contorted dwarf tree that doesn't grow large enough for commercial harvest.
So that's it for mahogany. Now just because the only mahogany in the world grows in tropical Central and South America (and the Caribbean) hasn't stopped other countries from trying to market their hardwood as "mahogany". Africa has a closely related genus (
Khaya) that, though it is not as dark or red as true mahogany, is sold as "African mahogany". Sapele (
Entandrophragma cylindricum), a beautiful wood out of Africa, is often marketed as "African mahogany" (which I think doesn't do sapele justice).
(Photo of a big sapele board on my garage floor - had to cut it in half to get it into my SUV. Look at that grain!)
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There are even a number of hardwoods out of the Phillipines that are loosely marketed as "Phillipine Mahogany" though in this case they aren't even related to true mahogany.
Mahogany is probably the most mis-labelled wood in the world. In fact, any time I see anything that says it is made out of mahogany, I am 99% certain that it isn't - unless I know that it is coming directly from a reputable source of handmade furniture or pre-dates the 1950's (and also comes directly from a reputable source). It just isn't a very common wood - and it is quite expensive.