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<p>[QUOTE="Darkwing Manor, post: 2034888, member: 738"]Is this chair as narrow as it looks in the pics, or is that a distortion? Round caned bottom chairs are not unusual. You can tell if this is the original seat material by looking for regularly spaced holes drilled around the seat edge to accommodate the weaving, or a channel groove to stretch machine caning into. Your chair looks to have been re-caned, with a less-than elegant binding finish. It also does not look like an American period chair to me. </p><p>I see a lot of originally caned chairs that have later been covered with pressed fibreboard, embossed leather or wooden covers, for durability and economy. Caned seats aren't very durable and blow out after a few year, especially if you use them for stepping stools. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shifty:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I agree, rocking chairs would not make suitable potty chairs.. nor stepping stools either for that matter. Either way, things would get pretty Western!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]248897[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Darkwing Manor, post: 2034888, member: 738"]Is this chair as narrow as it looks in the pics, or is that a distortion? Round caned bottom chairs are not unusual. You can tell if this is the original seat material by looking for regularly spaced holes drilled around the seat edge to accommodate the weaving, or a channel groove to stretch machine caning into. Your chair looks to have been re-caned, with a less-than elegant binding finish. It also does not look like an American period chair to me. I see a lot of originally caned chairs that have later been covered with pressed fibreboard, embossed leather or wooden covers, for durability and economy. Caned seats aren't very durable and blow out after a few year, especially if you use them for stepping stools. :shifty: I agree, rocking chairs would not make suitable potty chairs.. nor stepping stools either for that matter. Either way, things would get pretty Western! [ATTACH=full]248897[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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