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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jeff Drum, post: 957624, member: 6444&quot;]First of all, all great guesses. When you go to an auction, you have an expert interpreting what you are looking at. The experts aren&#039;t always right, and they have a tendency to overlook repairs and other &quot;issues&quot;. But when you buy out in the wild, you are on your own and need to base it on the evidence you see. Which is why I find it a lot more fun, and potentially rewarding (though obviously not always!).</p><p><br /></p><p>For this chair I immediately liked it, but saw a lot of clues pointing in different directions. I considered everything from late 1700&#039;s to mid 1900&#039;s as I looked at this chair. The seat is paper rush, so that has to be 20th century. On the other hand, cane and rush are very often replaced in old chairs, so that isn&#039;t definitive.</p><p><br /></p><p>The paint looks old and 19th century. Black paint was common in mid to late 19th century chairs. Seemed that mid to late 19th century was most likely, even though the turnings looked earlier to me - and that left me unsettled. So that was as far as I took it before I put it in my basement to be puzzled over later. (Should I mention that I have a LOT of puzzles hiding in my basement)?</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a post here on the forum about Sussex chairs several months ago <a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/anyone-ever-heard-of-william-morris.37954/#post-617493" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/anyone-ever-heard-of-william-morris.37954/#post-617493">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/anyone-ever-heard-of-william-morris.37954/#post-617493</a>. When I read the post, it immediately looked familiar to me, and I went down to look at my chair. I thought that was the answer. It is certainly similar in many ways, the stick style, finials, paint, unusual curve of the arms. On the other hand, many differences too - spindles, legs, stretchers and arm attachment were quite different. I couldn&#039;t find a Morris-made or Morris-inspired chair that matched mine, but that must be it. My conclusion was that this had to be a chair inspired by the Morris Sussex chair (pic below), made in late 1800&#039;s. (Morris chair made from 1864 to 1911, and various copies made in that time up to the present).</p><p><br /></p><p>BUT, that isn&#039;t the end of the story YET (see next post).</p><p><img src="https://co3-api-mediastorage.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/375457/preview" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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