Help identify this chair

Can anyone tell me what type of chair this is and the approx age? It is small, very decorative with a needle point seat. It has a very interesting back.

 

can you tell us
where it is
where u found it
what size it is

and show a photo of underneath the seat..?????????

 

Hi, Mindy! I've taken the liberty of reposting your photographs as Full Image so they're easier for everyone to see. You'll want to make sure you do that instead of click on Thumbnail in the future. (And not to worry. All new members do the same thing in their first few posts.) And, yes, please do tell how you came about your chair and what you were told about it.

Debora

 

Hi! And thank you for fixing the pictures. I picked this chair up at the goodwill. Total impulse buy. I just liked the way it looked and for $10.00, I bought it.
It is on the small side, but not child sized. Here are pics of the underside

 

There are very faint words hand written on the underneath

 

Goodwill? What a great ($10!) find. I can make out "Foster" followed by "514 S__all B" which I assume is an address. Does that read to you as somewhere local?

Debora

 

I live in the Orlando, Fl area and am fairly new here, so I am not sure. But I agree, it seems like an address of some sort, the handwriting, though faint, is very pretty.

 

fer 10 bucks......all day long !!!

nice find..

 

It's a pretty, old-fashioned hand. May well belong to the chair's original owner.

Debora

 

There's a 514 Sowell Blvd in Brewton, Alabama, but the "w" doesn't seem to work with the other very well structured letters, and it does look like an "a" not an "e".

-scratch that, it's Rd, not Blvd.

Swing and a miss

 

Late 19th century spindle chair with some elements of the stick and ball style. Was probably part of a set. I would think European (or English) in origin. Seems to be beech. The address may have been where to deliver the chair to when new.

 

Thank you for your help! I am going to research some more.

 

The needlepoint seat cover isn't as old as the chair. No reason you shouldn't replace if you wish.

Debora