Furniture, Wood and Cabinetry Finishing - Looking for Dark Chocolate brown stain and other ????s

I have just purchased a new Stickley quartersawn oak table. I am refinishing 6 quartersawn oak chairs that I got at an auction for a song. The Stickley table is in the Centennial finish which is a very dark chocolate brown stain. Does anyone know of a stain that goes this dark? I am almost that dark, just not quite dark enough.
How many times can you go over wood with stain? WIll going over and over it make it like a sealant where it is inpenetrable to more stain?
I have finished furniture before with much success, just never have had these specific parameters and/or limitations.
Thank you.
Louise

The traditional wood stain will darken to a point. Probably not get any darker after a second application. Aniline dye will darken with repeated application, but there is a limit to that as well. Mixing the stain as dark as possible and working with scraps is the best way to home in on the target.

If you use a clear finish that is amber tinted, the way most alkyd finish it made, it will darken the color a bit as well.

Stain and dye are not intended to seal the surface, but there is a limit to how much traditional stain will collect on the wood and a limit to how much aniline will dye the wood fiber. To some extent, sanding with a bit coarser paper will produce more surface to stain or dye. This may help.

Some of the extreme darkening of old oak furniture was due to ammonia fuming. You might want to look in to that process through some internet searching. Although it is hazardous to perform, there are some alternative methods to produce similar results.

Hope this helps.