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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DragonflyWink, post: 3182812, member: 111&quot;]Eh, certainly can&#039;t say for sure without actually handling them, but having used and owned a lot of aluminum patio furniture, these look like aluminum to me, it holds up so much better than steel here in the heavy humidity and daily summer rains in Florida.&nbsp; In the &#039;80s and &#039;90s, I even used a pair of palm motif curved fan-backs with a hammered bronze finish (bought new) that I made nice cushions for and put in my living room because they were sturdy and lightweight for moving around at parties.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of the elements of aluminum furniture are cast, the joints are welded and will say that I&#039;ve never had a weld break.&nbsp; The good ones are not inexpensive, the last I bought were three pairs for Mom&#039;s patio, nice quality, fairly simple design, retailed for $400.00 a pair at Lowes, but bought for a quarter of that on clearance, that was over five years ago, been in use outside non-stop, still in good condition.</p><p><br /></p><p>These look like right around the &#039;80s to me too, could have been sold for home use, but are similar to some found poolside at good hotels, seem to remember similar at a local fern bar as well, and can remember one friend&#039;s sort of awful indoor dining set with taller chairs of similar design, poorly constructed of steel tubing (I like the OP&#039;s chairs).</p><p><br /></p><p>Quick look around didn&#039;t turn up any quite like this, but did look at Leader&#039;s site, where the sturdy aluminum patio set at my house came from (an ex-boyfriend did manage to bend the steel spring on a platform rocker by leaning back way too far, but the frame survived the hard fall to concrete with 200 pounds of idiot attached) - this set has lots of curvy bits, and the pics enlarge to show the welds:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://leadersfurniture.com/charleston-outdoor-cast-aluminum-5-piece-mixed-dining-set/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://leadersfurniture.com/charleston-outdoor-cast-aluminum-5-piece-mixed-dining-set/" rel="nofollow">https://leadersfurniture.com/charleston-outdoor-cast-aluminum-5-piece-mixed-dining-set/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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