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Title: Can someone plz help which style of chair and how old
Post by: Betsie on December 04, 2016, 07:46:49 PM

Age and style please can someone help
Thank you

Title: Re: Can someone plz help which style of chair and how old
Post by: mart on December 04, 2016, 07:55:23 PM

Can you put one chair against a solid background so I can see how the splat is designed ??  Your chairs are from the 1940`s !!

Title: Re: Can someone plz help which style of chair and how old
Post by: Betsie on December 04, 2016, 08:37:19 PM

Appreciate your help

Title: Re: Can someone plz help which style of chair and how old
Post by: KC on December 04, 2016, 11:03:42 PM

It wouldn't help to show the underside if it is covered but if it isn't can you please post a picture.  Need to see construction.

These look newly recovered (at least not original).

Title: Re: Can someone plz help which style of chair and how old
Post by: cogar on December 05, 2016, 05:55:35 AM

The back [splat] looks to me to be 'molded' ....... but out of what type of material I wouldn't know.

Title: Re: Can someone plz help which style of chair and how old
Post by: mart on December 05, 2016, 07:16:13 AM

I have never seen any that were molded but these are machine made !!  When the Duncan Phyfe repro`s  were so popular several mfrs made similar shaped splats so they could compete with them but still have the same look without copying !!   

Title: Re: Can someone plz help which style of chair and how old
Post by: ghopper1924 on December 05, 2016, 07:17:16 AM

Yep, looks molded alright. These are indeed 1940s, call them Chippendale or Duncan Phyfe or Neoclassical revival, probably mahogany. These come from the "golden age of dining sets," the 1940s and 50s. In the U.S. midwest, everyone is trying to sell their grandparent's or great-grandparent's dining room sets, and at this point whole sets are going for $200-$300, so I'd say these chairs would probably bring $20.00-$25.00 each on a good day.