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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Figtree3, post: 200975, member: 33&quot;]I did a little looking for origins of the name &quot;Duxbury chair.&quot; I have not found a lot. For example, this article mentions them but a footnote at the end references an auction notice of 1988:</p><p><a href="http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/302/American-Furniture-1999/Politics,-Enterprise,-and-Design:-The-Nature-and-Influence-of-Windsor-Chairmaking-in-Early-Federal-Rhode-Island" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/302/American-Furniture-1999/Politics,-Enterprise,-and-Design:-The-Nature-and-Influence-of-Windsor-Chairmaking-in-Early-Federal-Rhode-Island" rel="nofollow">http://www.chipstone.org/article.php/302/American-Furniture-1999/Politics,-Enterprise,-and-Design:-The-Nature-and-Influence-of-Windsor-Chairmaking-in-Early-Federal-Rhode-Island</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I did find an digital version of a 1916 book in Project Gutenberg that has a drawing of a Duxbury chair a little way down the page. Use Ctrl-F to find it.</p><p><a href="http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na/4/4/7/5/44750/44750-h/44750-h.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na/4/4/7/5/44750/44750-h/44750-h.htm" rel="nofollow">http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na/4/4/7/5/44750/44750-h/44750-h.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Ethan Allen company was founded in 1932, so this at least indicates that they did not make up the name.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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