Thanks!
I volunteer at a museum that is restoring a wood fishing boat, circa 1925, and I know that the Shipwright overseeing the reconstruction has been adamant about using period materials. They even have some period logs from which they are cutting some of the key timbers. Granted... Most of them weren’t built of timbers that aged for 100 years... But still.
Just an observation from working on my house after a fire: 100 year old timbers have higher grain density than most modern trees, especially those intended for structural elements ashore. There are twice as many tree rings in some of the old 2x4s as modern ones.