Antique Chair

Greetings, I clean out homes and resell items and I was hoping one of you pros could help identify this chair and possibly it's value. I had to really shrink size of photo to allow it get posted. It does have "wheels" on the front. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Victorian, of course. But a better photograph is needed. Someone will be along shortly with instructions about how to post.

Debora

 

komo's helpful advice:

For Future reference, when posting images:

Each image MUST be UNDER 1 MB....
There are instructions on site here on how to reduce the size of your image, if that is the problem......you are allowed up to 10 images per post!!! Here are some links to the instructions:

Try emailing them to yourself as "medium" size, they should then be under 1 MB!

If on the computer:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/posting-a-thread-and-uploading-pictures.15990/

If on an iPhone:
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/resizing-photos-on-i-phone.35097/

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This is the top portion

 

The bottom

 

Back of chair bottom

 

And top of back

 

Would you be kind enough to post a photograph of the entire chair please?

Debora

 

The wheels are so a maid could move the chair around to clean under it. The upholstery looks later. Circa 1900-ish parlor chair?

 

Ca. 1870 armchair, probably rosewood but possibly walnut. It would have been part of a parlor set consisting of a sofa, a couple of armchairs, and maybe 4 side chairs. The upholstery is later.
I do not know your location, so can’t predict value. In my part of the US Midwest I’d think less than $100 on a good day. Too bad, because the wood and craftsmanship would seem to suggest more.
Oh, and BTW the German word for furniture, moebel, tells us why there were casters on furniture in this time period, ie mobility. Beds, desks, chairs, tables, all had casters so that they could be moved around as needed. Most people did not have enough furniture to keep it in one place all the time. A table, for example, might be moved to the center of the room for breakfast, then moved to a corner during the day as the family used the space for different purposes.

 

Agree with Ghopper. Sometimes called a balloon back chair. We see similar here under $50.00 here in my more rural, also Midwest, area quite regularly.

 

Thank you everyone

 

Thanks for the information. Fun to know of the word origin.