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Title: english solid chair,sheperd and hedger from southampton
Post by: noize99 on March 07, 2013, 08:04:29 AM

would like to know how old this chair is and any value

many thanks

Title: Re: english solid chair,sheperd and hedger from southampton
Post by: bigwull on March 07, 2013, 08:10:33 AM

welcome...better pics...the right way up helps...I,ve got a sore neck..pics of the rear, what the seat material is...and ..was it a skip find?

Title: Re: english solid chair,sheperd and hedger from southampton
Post by: ghopper1924 on March 07, 2013, 08:12:43 AM

Looks like 1930s or 40s.

Title: Re: english solid chair,sheperd and hedger from southampton
Post by: bigwull on March 07, 2013, 08:16:18 AM

It looks as if its had a hard life..on its own...the way it is...you might have to pay someone to take it away...me i,d chop it up and stick it in my  woodburner.... ;D...

Title: Re: english solid chair,sheperd and hedger from southampton
Post by: bigwull on March 07, 2013, 08:17:38 AM

its definitely 1930,s...it says so on Sheperd & Hedgers website....but i,d still chop it up...

Title: Re: english solid chair,sheperd and hedger from southampton
Post by: mart on March 07, 2013, 08:31:08 AM

I like that chair !! Leather seat & back ?? Was likely a desk chair !! It looks very masculine !! I would keep it !!

Title: Re: english solid chair,sheperd and hedger from southampton
Post by: bigwull on March 07, 2013, 09:19:55 AM

Quote from: mart on March 07, 2013, 08:31:08 AM

I like that chair !! Leather seat & back ?? Was likely a desk chair !! It looks very masculine !! I would keep it !!

and here was me thinking...that Mart....has taste....you have just shattered that illusion.... ;D..we have a saying over here....you,ve got the taste of an ingin.....

Title: Re: english solid chair,sheperd and hedger from southampton
Post by: ghopper1924 on March 07, 2013, 09:50:18 AM

Or...."You're dressed like a Scottish nightmare"

Title: Re: english solid chair,sheperd and hedger from southampton
Post by: bigwull on March 07, 2013, 10:30:04 AM

Quote from: ghopper1924 on March 07, 2013, 09:50:18 AM

Or...."You're dressed like a Scottish nightmare"

If it was,nt for the Scots you widnae hae half o,wit yiv got....any American that I,ve met...are always looking for their Scottish/Irish ancestors...so we canny be that much o, a nightmare...unlike they scally,s fae doon sooth...