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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 960433, member: 37&quot;]I think Jeff&#039;s evidence is pretty convincing.&nbsp; My point is that these chairs go back further and most are copies of earlier chairs.&nbsp; While the chair I posted has a lot of similarities, it is not as similar as the Winterthur chair.&nbsp; I have to assume the provenance of that chair is about as solid as can be.&nbsp; While the chair I posted was sold as early 20th century, I doubt that provenance to be as solid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Assuming Jeff&#039;s chair (and the Winterthur example) are early 19th century, they would be contemporary to the tail end of the original popularity of such chairs in England.&nbsp; The fact that one or more found their way to be made in America is not particularly surprising.&nbsp; I could see an English maker coming here and making chairs or an American copying versions he had seen.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The resurgence of popularity of such chairs later in the century was due to William Morris and most examples of such chairs date to this second period of popularity.&nbsp; I took Jeff&#039;s chair to be one of these examples.&nbsp; The idea that it could be an earlier American example did not occur to me.&nbsp; I was not aware of such a thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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