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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 160405, member: 44&quot;]I can&#039;t tell you anything about the table, hutch and side chair, but that rocker is called a &quot;Boston&quot; rocker with its wide originally decorated top rail, high in the back seat with roll front. The earliest ones date from c1830.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Around 1825 a Windsor variation called the “Boston” rocker appeared on the scene. By this time the American Windsor had evolved way past its English ancestry to become a purely American form, losing the hoop back and acquiring a rectangular or shaped crest rail. The Boston coupled that with a very comfortable sculpted seat that rose high in the back and rolled off in the front. The chairs were not made only in Boston and there is confusion about why the chairs is called by the city’s name. Many chair makers in New England made variations of the Boston including Lambert Hitchcock. But there is no confusion about the popularity of the chair. Antiques researcher and author Helen Comstock notes in her book “American Furniture,” Schiffer Publishing, “The popularity of the Boston rocker has possibly taken it into more American homes than any other type chair.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Nowww, I don&#039;t know know if yours date from the early 1800s or from the 1940s-1950s with the revival of colonial furniture. For example a Nichols and Stone 1940s Windsor rocker, &quot;Boston&quot; rocker.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few links with info on Boston rockers.</p><p><a href="http://www.antiques.com/classified/1128888/Antique-Classic-Boston-Rocker-with-Black-Paint---Gold-Fruit---Flora-Stenciling-C--1840---s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.antiques.com/classified/1128888/Antique-Classic-Boston-Rocker-with-Black-Paint---Gold-Fruit---Flora-Stenciling-C--1840---s" rel="nofollow">http://www.antiques.com/classified/1128888/Antique-Classic-Boston-Rocker-with-Black-Paint---Gold-Fruit---Flora-Stenciling-C--1840---s</a></p><p><a href="http://antiqueshoppefl.com/archives/ftaylor/cs148.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://antiqueshoppefl.com/archives/ftaylor/cs148.htm" rel="nofollow">http://antiqueshoppefl.com/archives/ftaylor/cs148.htm</a></p><p><a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_7722876_date-antique-rocking-chair.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ehow.com/how_7722876_date-antique-rocking-chair.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ehow.com/how_7722876_date-antique-rocking-chair.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.buffaloah.com/f/fstyles/fed/index.html#Boston" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.buffaloah.com/f/fstyles/fed/index.html#Boston" rel="nofollow">http://www.buffaloah.com/f/fstyles/fed/index.html#Boston</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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