Old chair with market at wheel

Chair by Kristinpersson posted Dec 5, 2018 at 7:10 AM

Under by Kristinpersson posted Dec 5, 2018 at 7:10 AM

Wheel by Kristinpersson posted Dec 5, 2018 at 7:10 AM

can some one help me with some history about this chair. You can see a sign at the chairs wheel. Can anyone identify the sign?

 

Any mark on the caster wheel is likely to relate to the maker of the casters rather than the funiture maker.

 

Yes i understand that. But it would be fun and interest for me to know what the maker stands for.

 

Kristin, I went looking for the maker of those casters. Loach & Clarke's was listed in the 1886 edition of The Furniture Gazette (published in London) under "cabinet & general brassfoundry".

Here's a blurb from that book (sorry it's so small - I had to cut & paste):

https://books.google.com/books/content?id=7_ylDWgYN1YC&pg=PA170&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U2ECCfnLMJDQ0Re-TArrn5pksFC4w&ci=511,438,438,599&edge=0


They apparently were an English company. I believe that somewhere in that Gazette, I saw that they were around starting sometime in 1869.

All of the examples I've found of furniture with their casters has been English and Victorian era. You can see a few pieces at the links below.

https://www.antiques-atlas.com/antique/early_victorian_mahogany_extending_table/as131a075

https://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/departments/furniture-works-of-art-clocks/af131107/view-lot/479/

https://auction.catawiki.com/kavels...uare-hassock-england-second-half-19th-century

 

Thank you so much for the information. So kind of you! THANKS!

Have you any idea if the fabric is original?

Thanks again..

 

You are most welcome, Kristin!

I am thinking I see small holes on the underside where a different upholstery might have been attached before. I've highlighted some below. Are these really holes in the wood, and can you see others along the edge? (To me, that would suggest that the chair had different fabric on it at one time.)

 

Probably not the original fabric. I remember that which is there now from the 60-70's.

 

The fabric and trim is not original and, unfortunately, upholstery not very sympathetic to chair.

Debora

 

That fabric always looked as if it would work...but then, it didn't...

 

Mid 19th C parlour or boudoir chair. I'm saying that sort of date, because the castors are porcelain, rather than solid brass and those wavy legs. I suspect the castors are early in that maker's life.

The fabric isn't pleasant, nor is it original and the webbing has redone rather badly. Get something nice on it, and it will look pretty again. Springs look right.