Help with English chairs

I don't have nearly the experience with English chairs that I do with American, so would appreciate help from anyone who does. My impression is that these are similar but not identical authentic antiques with replaced seats (unfortunately using paper rush instead of the original style rush). I see antique ones on google, but also a decent number of reproductions in this style, so they must have been popular back when people were still buying brown furniture. American ladder back chairs (a different style) were made from the 1700's to the 1900's so it takes some experience to distinguish between them; I assume the same may be true here, so to you when do these look to have been made?

 

personal note......(that's the same set ( newer..) my folks had at their country house...
I hated them.....they were so uncomfortable..........)

please continue...........

 

Are those metal studs in the legs? I'd think 1830s ish on, but they're tricky to date. Certainly 19th C. Oak.

 

You mean at the feet? No, not metal studs, just round felt stick-on floor protectors (recently added apparently). Was 1830's the date when this style was first made?

 

No, they predate that. It's the colour, construction, shape that looks 1830s on. Ish.

 

Hard to tell because that style has been made for decades and decades. I had a set which I got rid of because those posts bit into your thighs. I never did find cushions that would work with them.

 

...they so were not fun to sit on !!!!

 

This doesn't help you and I don't know your chairs but I did want to mention that ladder back chairs are still being made. I have some in my dining room and kitchen that were purchased new at various places in the 1980's +. (Then again I also have an old one that needs repair but that's a different issue).

https://clore.furniture/showroom/

 

I think what's interesting about the OPs chair is that the wood used isn't perfect. One wonders why. Were they originally painted? They don't look dipped & stripped.

 

Country pieces, made to be sold inexpensively and used in cottages and working class homes.