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Message:: [QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 6149793, member: 6444"]This is actually a fairly common american windsor chair style, called a braced-back continuous-arm armchair. When I say "common", I should say it is common in the reproduction market, but less often seen as a period chair. This style was popular in New York (especially New York city) and also in New England, but not made south of there. There were apparently lots made, but the continuous arm is a weak point and a lot of the surviving examples have repairs because of that (and a lot more probably discarded over the centuries when they broke). Yours looks to be a model of a New York chair, with the exception of the knuckle handholds and the turned spindles, both of which would have been unusual in New York. Below is a pic of a period chair I own, also likely from New York, probably made late 18th century same as your model's original. Currently hanging in my basement with lots of other period windsors and other 18th century chairs; this one due to loose repairs to the continuous arm. Hopefully at some point I will get into it this one to make repairs and promote it out of the basement.[ATTACH=full]418221[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]