Featured Need help with pair of antique chairs. Period? Maker? Country?

Just bought these two chairs from a house clearance company.. They were working on the job and I just passed them when they were loading it into the truck. Are these worth keeping? Paid £200 for the pair which was a huge gamble for me as I know nothing about them. Any ideas which period, maker or country they were made? Did I pay to much?

 

They look like Edwardian gentlemen's club armchairs. I assume they are leather. Unlikely to be anything but British.

 

I think you may have overpaid a tad if you want to resell, but not as keepers. They look mid 19th, are those castors brass? Leather looks original, which is nice - I'd call them gentleman's club chairs. Get a bit of saddle soap on them to clean, gently, and a bit of wax. I like them.

 

Great minds and all that.

 

Good lord I just sold one very similar...a tad bit earlier though for $2,500 the other day. Saddle soap them up and don't change a thing on them. They're lovely.

 

I like them, they would polish up a treat.
I would definitely keep them.

 

I really do need to start exporting.

 

Maybe we can all just sell to you. I would be very lucky to get $100 for the pair. My buyers would just see these as shabby (without the chic) .

 

I love them and I wouldnt dare touch that leather ! I dont know if its just an American thing,but you almost couldnt give something like these away here. Wich is a great pity.

 

A tip for those of you that need to clean leather. This liquid spray saddle soap, Leather New, works great and is easier than any other form. I discovered this when I had horses and cleaned all my tack with it. A few years back I bought a really old, dirty, moldy, Stubben Saddle for $50. I cleaned it up with this stuff and sold it for $600. I buy it at a local tack store but it an be ordered online. Here is a link for information purposes.
https://www.amazon.com/FARNAM-32601-Leather-Saddle-16-Ounce/dp/B000H5SQ4K

 

I'm in America They sell well here. If the OP does want to sell then don't touch them and send me a pm as to your location...I bought mine from a major antiques dealer in England and I could email him a picture. He would then pay you...do any leather or stuffing care necessary and then sell them to someone like me for far more than you paid lol.

 

On the decorator market those things sell like hotcakes, to people with more money than time or sense. All that old leather flies out the door. I'm not sure they'd sell here for any money at the estate sale level.

 

Yup those are my clients lol

 

Amazing. They look like they were expensive high end chairs when new, but in this worn condition I could not sell these for any amount where I live.

Good on the folks who are getting nice $$ though.

 

For that market, the beat-up leather is actually a selling point. The English Country House look has been a Thing for a while in some circles and in Britain. People want items that look like they've been in a house since the dawn of time. Those qualify in spades.

 

To me it seems there is a difference between comfortably worn and borderline disintegrating.

I love the red, and the wood is gorgeous, but the surface of the arms looks really shot.

But I'm not the person who sold similar for $2,500, so maybe I'm missing out on a market I was unaware of!

 

Shot arms are a bonus LOL My store is a luxury British home goods store located in the pacific northwest. The Seattle market wants lived in (shot) so you KNOW you're sitting in history LOL I saw a chair at a market in Seattle missing a leg...sitting on a pile of books that was $1500. Goes to show...you can sell anything!

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I love these!

 

I really like that beaten leather and it would sell here.

 

Thank you to all for the info/input. I'm happy that many members also like these chairs. Also very surprised how different prices/values are the UK and America (maybe not a bad idea to start thinking of export of certain items). I had a auctioneer looked at them and they told me they are English regency chairs and they give me also a surprisingly nice valuation. Thx all