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Aha !!
but now u have to look after it......& give it TLC !!!!..

 

I definitely will!

 

Yeah, but unfortunately some of the info is wrong. Right about the age and mix of woods, which was already said by others above. But these things just aren't right:

No, this is definitely NOT a Boston Rocker. The Boston Rocker started being made about a half century later, as shown and talked about here: https://www.antiquers.com/threads/boston-rocker.67587/

And the modern Windsor chair reproducer you are quoting seems to be the only one who calls a chair like this a Thomas Rocker. The correct term for the OP's chair was already given - a comb-extension sack-back, or more commonly a triple-back sack-back, or simply a triple-back windsor - see Charles Santore, The Windsor Style in America, 1997.

No, this was not a rocker originally. It was a chair that had rockers ADDED to it sometime in the last 200 years, then had those rockers removed and patches put on more recently. Probably when the seat and crest rail of the chair were repaired. Rockers were not original is shown by the way they were attached - that is NOT period way to attach rockers.

You know, James, it would help you post correct information if you wouldn't block the posts of others but would read what they wrote when they wrote it. Who knows, you might learn something.

 

Yay Jeff.......great info !!!

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( no great need to get personal though...........! ..)

 

Well, I hear you. But you think THAT is getting personal? When he stated in one of his posts that he set the option to IGNORE all of my posts and accused me of being a "Troll", it is unfortunately pretty hard NOT to take that personally. If he then comes into a thread where I have given correct information and "corrects" me with INCORRECT information - well I think you see what the problem is.

One of the things that is obvious on this board - and life in general - is that no one person has all the knowledge. So the more you shut yourself off from the contributions of others, the more likely you are to make a foolish mistake. You don't have to like or agree with everybody - but is it really so hard to at least listen to everybody? I don't ignore anyone - is that really where our world is headed?

 

Easy....this is not the world here.....just a tiny slice !

& yes.....what u say he did......was in no way proper either...

and I, myself , have defended myself in the face of personal comments here too...

but.....I also bite my tongue.....

it hurts......but the Mods....and my detractors ..like it that way !!

 

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I'm sorry I got in the middle of this.....

I like and respect both of you .......

 

I am not following you, at all.

 

Thank you so much, Jeff! I appreciate this info and grateful for your time. I really love the chair so I'm thrilled to learn about it!

 

Hey, I reserve the RIGHT to have a differing opinion!
Those that can't deal with differing opinions can stick it............

 

she means don't make it personal.......different opinions are fine !

 

Yes I know, was just saying in general

 

I think it’s safe to say that we all know the saying, that opinions are like —-holes and everybody has one. But maybe we should add to that, that if you listen only to your own opinions and ignore everybody else’s, then you’ll never learn anything.