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Message:: [QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 10471769, member: 6444"]Thank you! That comprehensive study was very helpful since my search had primarily been in their later online catalog from 1909 so I didn’t see the earlier examples. I agree it looks likely to be an earlier example by the Hubbard and Eldredge company founded 1898, or the renamed company after adding Miller which then lasted into the 30s. So example I have looks to be some of their purer work, prior to 1909. It looks like the company lost more and more of the craftsman touches (like the exposed tenons) as the years and decades went on, similar to what was seen at the L and JG Stickley company. In contrast, Gustave Stickley went out of business as interest in A&C furniture waned, so all surviving examples of his companies production remained purer to original vision. “Die young, stay pretty”. BTW, as far as I can tell, the Hubbard, Eldredge and Miller company, although a mouthful, was never referred to as HEMCO. The Hemco name seems to have been applied by them to one particular patented design for a recliner you found examples of (unless you know more about it than I could find).[/QUOTE]