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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 245063, member: 44&quot;]Here is a link to <i>A Guide to Eighteen-Century Windsor Chairs, </i>a history of the chair from when 1st made in England to the 1st ones in America made in Philadelphia in the 1740s. The making of them then moved nirth to NYC and Newport. It seems the first sack-backs made in America were done in Philly as copies of the English. In the following years the design moved up the coast to NYC and the coastal areas of New England. They were popular up into the 1780s. There is a pic of a New York sack-back.</p><p><a href="http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=199" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=199" rel="nofollow">http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=199</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a c1785 Phidelphia sack-back. Between you, me and the fence post, I can&#039;t tell the difference between it and the New Yor City sack-back.</p><p><a href="http://www.earlyamericanart.org/source/chairs%20in%20the%20exhibit/widdifieldchair.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.earlyamericanart.org/source/chairs%20in%20the%20exhibit/widdifieldchair.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.earlyamericanart.org/source/chairs in the exhibit/widdifieldchair.html</a></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>--- </i>Susan</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: the arms on yours are callered paddle arms. Sack-backs also came with knuckle arms.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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