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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kconary, post: 952839, member: 12116&quot;]I heard back from &quot;Nichols and Stone&quot;&#039;s historian yesterday!</p><p><br /></p><p>I quote the important parts of the letter here...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9c/5b/f6/9c5bf6301efb6f3057481427e4b2cc1d.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>&quot;You have a #73-6 Boston Rocker. In 1800, what could be called the first prototypes of what would ultimately be known as a Boston rocker appear. Forty years later there were hundreds of variations of Boston style rockers made by a wide range of makers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Nichols &amp; Stone sack back chair shop mark was burned into each piece to verify authenticity. From 1915-mid-1930&#039;s the shop mark was a burned in NS imposed over a hoop back chair silhouette.</p><p><br /></p><p>This particular rocker does not appear in the 1930 catalog indicating it was not introduced until shortly afterward in the mid-1930&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a page out of the 1960 catalog.&quot;</p><p><img src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d5/b9/c0/d5b9c0edac1d306b6129b9fc91a7588a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The part about the shop mark is exciting, &quot;NS imposed over a hoop back chair silhouette&quot;, now I see that&#039;s exactly what it looks like. It&#039;s the first I&#039;ve read anything about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>They don&#039;t do appraisals, so I didn&#039;t receive a monetary value for it. I don&#039;t plan on selling it so that doesn&#039;t bother me. I bought this rocker purely because I like the simple design and I wanted a classic rocking chair for my home at a good price (bought it for $30). We live in South Carolina (in a historical town) and finding old, used rocking chairs is pretty easy. After I bought it and I realized that it was a little more special than I originally thought, I just had to figure it out! Thanks for helping out everyone![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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