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<p>[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 341784, member: 6444"]I suppose it depends on what you mean by antique, but very little mid-19th century and earlier antique furniture in the US (the stuff that was handmade) is signed with a maker mark. You sometimes see it on Windsor chairs (and these are not Windsor chairs) but rarely on anything else.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you're talking about EB Tracy Windsor chairs, then these are definitely not that. If you want opinions on how your chairs were made and better opinions on how old they are you'll need pictures showing the underneath surface and closeups of the joints where the pieces of wood come together.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 341784, member: 6444"]I suppose it depends on what you mean by antique, but very little mid-19th century and earlier antique furniture in the US (the stuff that was handmade) is signed with a maker mark. You sometimes see it on Windsor chairs (and these are not Windsor chairs) but rarely on anything else. If you're talking about EB Tracy Windsor chairs, then these are definitely not that. If you want opinions on how your chairs were made and better opinions on how old they are you'll need pictures showing the underneath surface and closeups of the joints where the pieces of wood come together.[/QUOTE]
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