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<p>[QUOTE="SeaGoat, post: 271541, member: 1136"]The colors are not so much red white and blue, more red gold, orange, olive, and blue <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I read the first Jews came over in the 1500s, but they they had definitely "set up camp" during our colonization period.. but I dint know how predominant they were in furniture making.</p><p>Commissioned?</p><p>Maybe not even meant to be the star off david?</p><p><br /></p><p>I was looking in my Penn country antiques book and it says its a splat back Boston rocker via the curved front and back.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I was reading the history on Boston Rockers and came across this amusing account the English had on rocking chairs as a whole</p><p><br /></p><p>" Many Europeans couldn’t understand the American addiction to rockers. In fact, some visitors considered the new contraptions positively bizarre, if not almost immoral. In 1835 an English visitor wrote of the profusion of rockers she found on the steamer Charles Carroll : “Others sit lazily in a species of rocking chair—which is found wherever Americans sit down—cradling themselves backwards and forwards, with a lazy, lounging, sleeping air, that makes me long to make them get up and walk.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Her ascerbity was echoed three years later by the British traveler Harriet Martineau: “In these small inns the disagreeable practice of rocking in the chair is seen in its excess. In the inn parlors are three or four rocking chairs in which sit ladies who are vibrating in different directions and at various velocities, so as to try the head of a stranger. How this lazy and ungraceful indulgence ever became general, I cannot imagine, but the nation seems so wedded to it, that I see little chance of its being forsaken.”</p><p><a href="http://www.americanheritage.com/content/boston-rocker" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.americanheritage.com/content/boston-rocker" rel="nofollow">http://www.americanheritage.com/content/boston-rocker</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like they started gaining face about 1830 and sometime after 1840 started becoming mass produced, per the above link.</p><p><br /></p><p>"Fun" Fact: Lincoln was shot in a Boston Rocker.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm going to search now when and in what other instances the star off david has been used in the US[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SeaGoat, post: 271541, member: 1136"]The colors are not so much red white and blue, more red gold, orange, olive, and blue :) I read the first Jews came over in the 1500s, but they they had definitely "set up camp" during our colonization period.. but I dint know how predominant they were in furniture making. Commissioned? Maybe not even meant to be the star off david? I was looking in my Penn country antiques book and it says its a splat back Boston rocker via the curved front and back. I was reading the history on Boston Rockers and came across this amusing account the English had on rocking chairs as a whole " Many Europeans couldn’t understand the American addiction to rockers. In fact, some visitors considered the new contraptions positively bizarre, if not almost immoral. In 1835 an English visitor wrote of the profusion of rockers she found on the steamer Charles Carroll : “Others sit lazily in a species of rocking chair—which is found wherever Americans sit down—cradling themselves backwards and forwards, with a lazy, lounging, sleeping air, that makes me long to make them get up and walk.” Her ascerbity was echoed three years later by the British traveler Harriet Martineau: “In these small inns the disagreeable practice of rocking in the chair is seen in its excess. In the inn parlors are three or four rocking chairs in which sit ladies who are vibrating in different directions and at various velocities, so as to try the head of a stranger. How this lazy and ungraceful indulgence ever became general, I cannot imagine, but the nation seems so wedded to it, that I see little chance of its being forsaken.” [URL]http://www.americanheritage.com/content/boston-rocker[/URL] Looks like they started gaining face about 1830 and sometime after 1840 started becoming mass produced, per the above link. "Fun" Fact: Lincoln was shot in a Boston Rocker. I'm going to search now when and in what other instances the star off david has been used in the US[/QUOTE]
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