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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 108402, member: 44&quot;]From the following Arizona Historical Society page, it appears Maple City Viking chair was patented by the Maple City Stamping Co. on September 19, 1924. They say the metal braces of the legs are stamped with this patent info. There is always the possibility the braces were patented at that time and not the whole chair??? I tried to find the patent with no luck. Tracking down patents without a patent number is always a tedious job for me because hundreds of patents are issued on the same dates as well as most times a patent is issued to an individual rather than a company.</p><p><a href="http://azhstempe.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/D6A02A2E-79F7-41CB-92AF-508849187528" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://azhstempe.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/D6A02A2E-79F7-41CB-92AF-508849187528" rel="nofollow">http://azhstempe.pastperfectonline.com/webobject/D6A02A2E-79F7-41CB-92AF-508849187528</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another type of folding chair by Maple City presumably patented in 1926 per the seller:</p><p><a href="http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/hard-to-find-c-1920-s-american-industrial-heavy-gauge-folded-and-pressed-brushed-steel-four-legged-portable-folding-chair.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/hard-to-find-c-1920-s-american-industrial-heavy-gauge-folded-and-pressed-brushed-steel-four-legged-portable-folding-chair.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/hard-to-find-c-1920-s-american-industrial-heavy-gauge-folded-and-pressed-brushed-steel-four-legged-portable-folding-chair.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are these with the same back as yours, but the seats are not. The seats are like those on the 1926 chairs:</p><p><a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/set-antique-maple-city-stamping-co-470446087" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/set-antique-maple-city-stamping-co-470446087" rel="nofollow">http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/set-antique-maple-city-stamping-co-470446087</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and these with a patent date of Sep. 16, 1924. Note Sep 16 and not Sep 19 like above. Wonder if this listing made a typo in the date or the Arizona H.S. did? If both dates are suppose to be the same, then the Arizona H.S. chair is not identical to yours.</p><p><a href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-industrial-metal-folding-20341159" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-industrial-metal-folding-20341159" rel="nofollow">http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-industrial-metal-folding-20341159</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another listing of their 9/19/1924 patent chair. As yours has a different back etc.... Yours are probably later. </p><p><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/102673676/reserved-for-amanda-collection-of-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/102673676/reserved-for-amanda-collection-of-8" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/listing/102673676/reserved-for-amanda-collection-of-8</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t found any with the same rounded back ***and*** with the same seat as yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Found a little history on the Maple City Stamping Co. of Peoria. It was originally Maple City Mfg. Co. of Monmouth, IL, who made oilers, lamps, etc.... I thought the name sounded familiar because I have had a life time interest in oil lamps. Anywho, the company was founded in 1904 located in the Soap Works Factory building in Monmouth. In 1907 the Soap Works business was sold to Proctor &amp; Gamble and moved to Cincinnati. Soon after the Soap Works was moved, Maple City bought the building calling it the Can Factory. In 1917 the building burned down. Maple City moved to Peoria where they made oilers and folding steel chairs. They went bankrupt in 1920. &quot;Out of the bankruptcy came the Maple City Stamping Company who continued to manufacture oilers as well as other metal fabrication products.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.halslamppost.com/Oilwick%20Lamps/slides/MC%20Oiler%20002.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.halslamppost.com/Oilwick%20Lamps/slides/MC%20Oiler%20002.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.halslamppost.com/Oilwick Lamps/slides/MC Oiler 002.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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