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<p>[QUOTE="Neil Konzelman, post: 323578, member: 6596"]Recently bought these chairs. No info was available. They look fairly old to me, but I'm no expert. I figure late 1800's or early 1900's. Cushion construction tells me this is old, more than anything else. To sit in them, they feel quite old, purely because of the cushions. Actual wood construction is amazingly solid feeling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like carved mahogany, very solid, very heavy. I purchased them in London Ontario, Canada, but no idea where they actually came from. I found a 1 cent euro stuffed between the cushions, which is fairly rare to randomly find around here, but I assume that's probably an indication of who's been using them, more than anything else. No brand markings anywhere that I can obviously see, which I find very unfortunate.</p><p><br /></p><p>Was just wondering if anyone around here could look at a chair like this and provide more insights or info. I like when my old stuff has a bit of a story that I can research further and tell to others. I don't care about the price, I didn't pay a lot, and I know stuff like this generally has far less value than anyone would expect based on quality (these feel like at one point they would have been fairly expensive and considered pretty nice chairs). It has more value to me personally if I can attach a neat history/background/story to it, and so that's what I'm hoping to somehow do. But I have very little to go on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can take any additional pictures required to help figure out any sort of history/background.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]107850[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]107851[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]107852[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]107853[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Neil Konzelman, post: 323578, member: 6596"]Recently bought these chairs. No info was available. They look fairly old to me, but I'm no expert. I figure late 1800's or early 1900's. Cushion construction tells me this is old, more than anything else. To sit in them, they feel quite old, purely because of the cushions. Actual wood construction is amazingly solid feeling. Looks like carved mahogany, very solid, very heavy. I purchased them in London Ontario, Canada, but no idea where they actually came from. I found a 1 cent euro stuffed between the cushions, which is fairly rare to randomly find around here, but I assume that's probably an indication of who's been using them, more than anything else. No brand markings anywhere that I can obviously see, which I find very unfortunate. Was just wondering if anyone around here could look at a chair like this and provide more insights or info. I like when my old stuff has a bit of a story that I can research further and tell to others. I don't care about the price, I didn't pay a lot, and I know stuff like this generally has far less value than anyone would expect based on quality (these feel like at one point they would have been fairly expensive and considered pretty nice chairs). It has more value to me personally if I can attach a neat history/background/story to it, and so that's what I'm hoping to somehow do. But I have very little to go on. Can take any additional pictures required to help figure out any sort of history/background. Thanks [ATTACH=full]107850[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]107851[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]107852[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]107853[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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