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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 144611, member: 44"]Welcome to the forum!</p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, I vote cut down also. Early slat-back chairs did have short legs, low to the ground, with the stretchers only a few inches above the floor, but this one has the bottom stretchers touching or nearly touching the floor. Similar slat-back chairs, AKA ladder-back chairs, were made for centuries, 1500s to the 1900s to yesterday. Some had mushrooms finials like yours while others had more pointed finials. Most automatically think of Shaker when seeing this style, but it's roots begin long before the Shakers. This style chair was well known by the Puritans and Pilgrims long before the Shakers.</p><p><br /></p><p>A 3 slat-back side chair with low stretchers, probably original reed seat, was passed down to me. I have no idea of the age and doubt anyone else could definitely date it without doing a carbon dating thingy. I haven't tried to have it dated for I **want** to think it started life in the 1600s/1700s rather than being made in the wood shed by one of my great grandfathers in the late 1800s. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an interesting article on slat-back chairs:</p><p><a href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/slat-back-chairs-in-europe-and-america/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/slat-back-chairs-in-europe-and-america/" rel="nofollow">http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/slat-back-chairs-in-europe-and-america/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 144611, member: 44"]Welcome to the forum! FWIW, I vote cut down also. Early slat-back chairs did have short legs, low to the ground, with the stretchers only a few inches above the floor, but this one has the bottom stretchers touching or nearly touching the floor. Similar slat-back chairs, AKA ladder-back chairs, were made for centuries, 1500s to the 1900s to yesterday. Some had mushrooms finials like yours while others had more pointed finials. Most automatically think of Shaker when seeing this style, but it's roots begin long before the Shakers. This style chair was well known by the Puritans and Pilgrims long before the Shakers. A 3 slat-back side chair with low stretchers, probably original reed seat, was passed down to me. I have no idea of the age and doubt anyone else could definitely date it without doing a carbon dating thingy. I haven't tried to have it dated for I **want** to think it started life in the 1600s/1700s rather than being made in the wood shed by one of my great grandfathers in the late 1800s. Here is an interesting article on slat-back chairs: [URL]http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/slat-back-chairs-in-europe-and-america/[/URL] --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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