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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;alliems, post: 91824, member: 1291&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>My husband&#039;s mother left him 2 chairs.&nbsp; They are in need of re-upholstering and one of the legs of one of the chairs is broken.&nbsp; We do not however know where the chairs came from.&nbsp; We believe they came from one of the following 2 sources:</p><p><br /></p><p>(a) They are chairs which have been in my husband&#039;s mother&#039;s family a long time, in which case they are likely of Italian / Sicilian origin as that is where her and her family were from.</p><p><br /></p><p>(b) My husband&#039;s mother moved to Ireland in the 1960s following marrying an Irish man and these chairs are not actually her family heirlooms but simply chairs she purchased, most likely in an antique shop or similar in Ireland.</p><p><br /></p><p>Our view is that if they are old Italian / Sicilian chairs, they are likely family heirlooms and we should get them repaired and re-upholstered, but, if they are not, we should not go to that expense as they are not really family heirlooms.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would anybody with any knowledge of chairs, be able to offer any advice?</p><p><br /></p><p>Many Thanks</p><p><br /></p><p>Allie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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