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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;James Conrad, post: 580518, member: 5066&quot;]I don&#039;t think it&#039;s period, no. The OP chair is trying to be to many things at once which was typical in the late victorian period. A boarded seat &amp; carved apron which would be typical on a joined chair and 3 legs which would be typical on a 3 post turners chair.</p><p>The Chipstone Foundation did a study on early chairs with most of the early examples of 3 post chairs are English.</p><p>&quot;Men Shoveling Chairs&quot;- 15th century Netherlandish Drawing</p><p>[ATTACH=full]174609[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Stools with a different type of board-seat construction are depicted in the fifteenth-century Netherlandish drawing</p><p>&quot;This allegory of social unrest jumbles together chairs reserved for the elite with peasants’ stools. Among the seating forms shown are stools with plank seats and stake feet, folding stools of the sort associated with church dignitaries, and a chair with shaved posts, a rush seat, and a joined back in-filled with latticework. The most important objects represented in the drawing are three-post, turned stools with board seats. &quot;</p><p>To read article &amp; see pics of early chairs</p><p><a href="http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/569/American-Furniture-2007/American-Board-Seated-Turned-Chairs,-1640%E2%80%931740" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/569/American-Furniture-2007/American-Board-Seated-Turned-Chairs,-1640%E2%80%931740" rel="nofollow">http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/569/American-Furniture-2007/American-Board-Seated-Turned-Chairs,-1640–1740</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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