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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 145059, member: 44"]Oh, dear. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /> I'm posting pics of the chair, but pleaseeeeee, nobody tell me it dates from the late 1800s. I want to think it dates from the 1600s-1700s. Ignorance is bliss. I don't ever plan to sell it so value is irrelevant to me. The only provenance I have is that it was stuck away in a back closet of my grandparents. All my mother's life (born 1912) she had been fascinated with it. In the late 1930s after mother married and had a home of her own, she asked her mother if she could have it. My grandmother's reply was, "That old thing?" Grandma thought mother had gone over the edge in wanting that chair. She gladly let Mom have it. Sooooo it at least dates back to c1912. As my grandmother called it old, I bet it was at least as old as her. She was born in 1881. Then again she may have meant old not in age but in worn condition. It could have been made by Grandma's father, a great grandfather, but as my maternal Grandmother and Grandfather's ancestors crossed the big pond in the early 1600s, I'd like/want to think/dream it dates from then. Again ignorance is bliss, and, please, no one burst my bubble.</p><p><br /></p><p>The chair has been painted some time along the way. The reed seat has some of the paint on it. Because the rungs in front are quite worn and little raw wood showing on them means it has been painted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: Is this seat called a flat reed?</p><p>Another question, would the color of this chair be called milk red?</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]38825[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 145059, member: 44"]Oh, dear. :( I'm posting pics of the chair, but pleaseeeeee, nobody tell me it dates from the late 1800s. I want to think it dates from the 1600s-1700s. Ignorance is bliss. I don't ever plan to sell it so value is irrelevant to me. The only provenance I have is that it was stuck away in a back closet of my grandparents. All my mother's life (born 1912) she had been fascinated with it. In the late 1930s after mother married and had a home of her own, she asked her mother if she could have it. My grandmother's reply was, "That old thing?" Grandma thought mother had gone over the edge in wanting that chair. She gladly let Mom have it. Sooooo it at least dates back to c1912. As my grandmother called it old, I bet it was at least as old as her. She was born in 1881. Then again she may have meant old not in age but in worn condition. It could have been made by Grandma's father, a great grandfather, but as my maternal Grandmother and Grandfather's ancestors crossed the big pond in the early 1600s, I'd like/want to think/dream it dates from then. Again ignorance is bliss, and, please, no one burst my bubble. The chair has been painted some time along the way. The reed seat has some of the paint on it. Because the rungs in front are quite worn and little raw wood showing on them means it has been painted. Edit: Is this seat called a flat reed? Another question, would the color of this chair be called milk red? --- Susan [ATTACH=full]38825[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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