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Message:: [QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 454056, member: 2844"]As Brad said, many were made at a later date in Eastern Block countries. But to be fair, that is also where many were made in the first place.From 1856 Thonet opened several furniture factories in Moravia, now eastern Czechia. The region was known for the beautiful beech forests, and beechwood was used for the famous bentwood furniture.In the 1860s and 70s they also opened factories in Hungary. Both Hungary and Moravia were part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, so regarded as part of the same country as Austria. We have an antique Hungarian made Thonet rocking chair nr 1. It came to the Netherlands with a Hungarian girl who was sent here to be nursed back to health after the devastations of WWI.She had lost her family and her home, the chair had survived (maybe on the porch?). It was all she had, and she took it with her wherever she went.The girl stayed in the Netherlands, married, and had children. Years later she became my husband's first MIL. She gave him her treasured chair, because she was so fond of him. So have I. Just a different country.[/QUOTE]