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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 4490918, member: 37&quot;]I saw these and was intrigued/puzzled by them.&nbsp; They were only $6.00 each and quite sturdy.&nbsp; I have no use for more chairs but thought this might make for an interesting post. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am not really seeing aesthetic period and would have thought older.&nbsp; However, I really don&#039;t know.&nbsp; The pics don&#039;t really show it but the splats are very hand made from a single piece of wood.&nbsp; I would expect late Victorian mainstream furniture to be more polished and posibly veneer faced.&nbsp;&nbsp; The pegged construction also seems earlier.&nbsp; Wood looks to be cherry or other fruitwood, which I would also not expect from a US manufacturing company.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>These are obviously cottage or kitchen chairs, rather than for a fine dining room.&nbsp; They could have been made in a smaller country shop. My gut reaction was that they were English or Continental and possibly as early as the turn of the 18th to 19th century.&nbsp; The worm damage which extends to the obviously early crude repair might also be swaying my opinion.&nbsp; Who knows, they could have been chucked in to a barn not all that long after they were made 100 or so years ago..... or was that 200 years ago?</p><p><br /></p><p>Any other thoughts?&nbsp; Origin of that back splat pattern?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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