Antique? Rocking Chair

Any insight on this rocker I picked up? Seat seems leather.

 

Potty chair, that is why there is a hole!

 

You're joking right?

 

I want to say pressed cardboard leatherette... ?

 

Whole new meaning to the game of Hit the Can while rocking away! ! !


If you turn the chair over and there are holes around the Hole, then it was a caned seat. Otherwise it had an embossed leather seat.

The pressed cardboard would be a replacement.

Time period early 1900s American Oak. Pressback Rocker

 

Clutteredcloset is right on.

 

Thanks much!! Although I have to say I think the current seat is leather, it just doesn't feel like cardboard....no holes on bottom around the big hole, so not caned seat....any idea of value? It's a bit rough...

 

Your call on that, @DivasFinds !

 

Value will depend on how and where you intend to sell it.
Rocking chairs seem to have fallen out of favor. Young mothers don't seem to be interested in them.

My part of the world, (Northern CA), I would have a hard time selling it in that condition. Might get lucky with $25.

 

It could possibly have had a pressed cane seat.....no holes on the bottom, but a groove around the circle on the top to press in a finished piece of cane.

 

Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge! I love how much I learn on here!

 

OK, my bad, but it may not have started out life as a rocker.