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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 2188832, member: 5066"]I dimly remember the name but the details escape me.</p><p>It's difficult if not impossible to date furniture for certain with photographs alone, a general range of dates is about the best you can do.</p><p>On your chair we can't see if the legs are machine turned or turned with a pole lathe, ditto the spindles, are they carved (knifed) with a spokeshave or done by machine.</p><p>The camera just misses these details that are quite easy to see in person.</p><p>Additionally, there are master chairmakers today that build exactly as they did in the 18th century, right down to riving (splitting logs into chair parts) the wood.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 2188832, member: 5066"]I dimly remember the name but the details escape me. It's difficult if not impossible to date furniture for certain with photographs alone, a general range of dates is about the best you can do. On your chair we can't see if the legs are machine turned or turned with a pole lathe, ditto the spindles, are they carved (knifed) with a spokeshave or done by machine. The camera just misses these details that are quite easy to see in person. Additionally, there are master chairmakers today that build exactly as they did in the 18th century, right down to riving (splitting logs into chair parts) the wood.[/QUOTE]
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