So! Endlich bin ich fündig geworden! Bei Plinius (d.Ä.), Historia naturalis, Buch 16, Kapitel 84 habe ich einen kompletten Text über's Verblenden gefunden (Kapitel heißt auch "Veneering) hier der relevante Auszug:
The best woods for cutting into layers, and employing as a [p. 3429] veneer for covering others, are the citrus, the terebinth, the different varieties of the maple, the box, the palm, the holly, the holm-oak, the root of the elder, and the poplar. The alder furnishes also, as already stated, a kind of tuberosity, which is cut into layers like those of the citrus and the maple. In all the other trees the tuberosities are of no value whatever. It is the central part of trees that is most variegated, and the nearer we approach to the root the smaller are the spots and the more wavy. It was in this appearance that originated that requirement of luxury which displays itself in covering one tree with another, and bestowing upon the more common woods a bark of higher price. In order to make a single tree sell many times over, laminæ of veneer have been devised; but that was not thought sufficient--the horns of animals must next be stained of different colours, and their teeth cut into sections, in order to decorate wood with ivory, and, at a later period, to veneer it all over. Then, after all this, man must go and seek his materials in the sea as well! For this purpose he has learned to cut tortoise-shell into sections; and of late, in the reign of Nero, there was a monstrous invention devised of destroying its natural appearance by paint, and making it sell at a still higher price by a successful imitation of wood.
Gefunden bei Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/pt ... d%3D%23998
Also: Marketerie/Verblendung mit Hölzern wie Zitrusgewächsen, Palme, Terebinthe (wohl eine art Pistazie http://www.odu.edu/webroot/instr/sci/pl ... s/pistacia ), diversen Ahornsorten, Stechpalme, Steineiche, Holunderwurzel, Erle und Pappel sind gesichert, (Buche und Esche wohl auch, beide werden weiter oben im Text erwähnt) desweiteren ist die Verwendung von Schildplatt, (gefärbtem!) Horn und Elfenbein auch nachgewiesen! 
So, jetzt fehlen mir nurnoch die realien...Funde, wo seid ihr??? 
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