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<p>[QUOTE="F pul, post: 12140911, member: 88850"]you think they’re even older then 70 years?</p><p><br /></p><p>My grandma can still have a very sharp memory at some times but most of the time it isn’t anymore so asking her can 9/10 times result in ‘I don’t know’ and that 1 time she could exactly know where they would come from. However, i won’t put her trough asking it 10 times on different days though haha.</p><p><br /></p><p>My aunt thought it could have been bought from an (local) atelier (if that’s the correct word in English as well). My grandmother comes from Assen but I think she had these chairs from when she lives in Son & Breugel.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Since they’ve been in our family, these chairs have always had these round wooden blocks as the front feet. However, I’m starting to wonder if they may have been added later, as they do not seem fully original to the design. Considering the weight and style of the chairs, I was wondering whether they might originally have had small casters/wheels at the front, which seems to have been common for heavy armchairs from that period according to AI however.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]552124[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="F pul, post: 12140911, member: 88850"]you think they’re even older then 70 years? My grandma can still have a very sharp memory at some times but most of the time it isn’t anymore so asking her can 9/10 times result in ‘I don’t know’ and that 1 time she could exactly know where they would come from. However, i won’t put her trough asking it 10 times on different days though haha. My aunt thought it could have been bought from an (local) atelier (if that’s the correct word in English as well). My grandmother comes from Assen but I think she had these chairs from when she lives in Son & Breugel. Since they’ve been in our family, these chairs have always had these round wooden blocks as the front feet. However, I’m starting to wonder if they may have been added later, as they do not seem fully original to the design. Considering the weight and style of the chairs, I was wondering whether they might originally have had small casters/wheels at the front, which seems to have been common for heavy armchairs from that period according to AI however. [ATTACH=full]552124[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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