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<p>[QUOTE="tinpanalley, post: 9849863, member: 87742"]Thank you all for your input. Heck of a lot better than on a subreddit I found. </p><p><br /></p><p>The fact is that it's not that my wife and I will ONLY purchase furniture that has some monetary museum-piece value, but like our used books and records, we'd like them to have some kind of past that predates late 20th Century department store origins. And what we've benefitted most from over the years is from people trying to sell off exactly this, one or two chairs because they aren't part of a set. We love that our dining table has 6 different chairs that get used for it. Our apartment is a bit of an eclectic mix of older, warm, furniture that goes from Victorian to early 20th Century. Nothing "matches" in our home except different areas have different matching tones. </p><p>So, what I'm wanting with these chairs is for them to not be something you could get at the Bombay Company when they were open or even some very high end hand fabricated piece made now. We'd like for the furniture to have lived a bit and to have been at least from the 40s. My heart would sink if I saw a tag on these from the 1980 from Sears.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="tinpanalley, post: 9849863, member: 87742"]Thank you all for your input. Heck of a lot better than on a subreddit I found. The fact is that it's not that my wife and I will ONLY purchase furniture that has some monetary museum-piece value, but like our used books and records, we'd like them to have some kind of past that predates late 20th Century department store origins. And what we've benefitted most from over the years is from people trying to sell off exactly this, one or two chairs because they aren't part of a set. We love that our dining table has 6 different chairs that get used for it. Our apartment is a bit of an eclectic mix of older, warm, furniture that goes from Victorian to early 20th Century. Nothing "matches" in our home except different areas have different matching tones. So, what I'm wanting with these chairs is for them to not be something you could get at the Bombay Company when they were open or even some very high end hand fabricated piece made now. We'd like for the furniture to have lived a bit and to have been at least from the 40s. My heart would sink if I saw a tag on these from the 1980 from Sears.[/QUOTE]
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