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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 381202, member: 6444&quot;]I would call this a modified late Windsor chair, from about the mid to late 1800&#039;s. Looks like it has a solid plank seat in which case on the earlier end of that range, but if made of pieces glued together it is later. It has mostly bamboo ring turnings, which was used on late Windsors (compare to the post I made of a chair dated 1826 <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/pair-of-windsor-chairs-i-couldnt-pass-up.28025/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/pair-of-windsor-chairs-i-couldnt-pass-up.28025/">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/pair-of-windsor-chairs-i-couldnt-pass-up.28025/</a>), but this has a few later parts like the back rail so it is on the later side when bench made Windsors were replaced by chairs made in large factories in New England and midwest. This would have been painted when new. The arms seem original. The rockers on the bottom are harder to call. A LOT of old Windsors have had rockers added decades later, and there are very few original early Windsors with rockers. This one is fairly late, and therefore in a time when newly made rocking chair is possible, but I would guess this one had the rockers added later, mainly because the leg style matches that of non-rockers, and the bottom braces don&#039;t make sense to be so close to the rockers. I&#039;m guessing the seat is also pretty close to the floor because the bottom of the legs were cut off when the rockers were added.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately Windsors that have been stripped and modified have little value these days. Even complete Windsors like mine don&#039;t have much value. So if you don&#039;t have room for it, the basement seems like an OK place to keep it, maybe to wait until it is better appreciated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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