Featured Can anyone please tell me about this chair?

Discussion in 'Furniture' started by chris klausen, Feb 4, 2025.

  1. chris klausen

    chris klausen Active Member

    Hi everyone. Thank you in advance for your expertise. Please tell me what you can.
    Thanks,
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  2. bosko69

    bosko69 Well-Known Member

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  3. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    uncomfortable.......... maybe religious use...:hilarious::hilarious:
     
  4. chris klausen

    chris klausen Active Member

    It's actually surprisingly comfortable for what is!
     
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  5. 916Bulldogs123

    916Bulldogs123 Well-Known Member

  6. chris klausen

    chris klausen Active Member

    Thank you! It sure does!
     
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  7. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    You can see the worm holes too. Another sign of age. Id guess its a hall chair .
     
  8. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    I was also thinking along Komo's line.....that it might have been used in a church....just my guess......
     
  9. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    I keep coming up with old Italian..........
     
  10. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    My first thought was Switzerland. Not too far off, Lombardy borders on Switzerland.;)
    I thought hall chairs were an 18th-19th century British thing. On the Continent we usually had benches in hallways.
     
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  11. Ghopper1924

    Ghopper1924 Well-Known Member

    Chairs were used in 17th Century America, but if a household had one they were considered lucky. Benches…..or nothing at all….were more common.

    A chair would usually be reserved for the head of the household, particularly at table. Thus the origin of the word chairman.
     
  12. Sedona

    Sedona Well-Known Member

    Very lovely!

    Curious…the similar one online says it’s made of walnut. I’m pretty bad at identifying particular types of wood. It doesn’t help that some antique stores just list an item as a “carved wood chair” etc.

    Can anyone tell from the grain of this chair whether it’s also walnut? Or, is one wood more likely than not because of where and when it was made? I’ve read, for example, that oak is very period-specific.
     
  13. t.paine

    t.paine Member

    Ha... that's what I thought as well. We have a Swedish "monk chair" in our apartment, and while it looks great where it sits, my bottom doesn't feel great when I sit :D
     
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  14. verybrad

    verybrad Well-Known Member

    Hard to tell the wood. Looks less distinct than walnut and definitely not oak. Maybe beech or some type of fruitwood. I am not so sure the one in the link is walnut either.
     
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  15. Bev aka thelmasstuff

    Bev aka thelmasstuff Colored pencil artist extraordinaire ;)

    I'd have thought it was a modern attempt at an antique. The worm holes actually seem suspicious to me. The example in the link is much better quality. Too many people mistake primitive with old. The back seems off because it's lopsided. I don't know enough about the era or the source.
     
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