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<p>[QUOTE="J.R., post: 909620, member: 11989"]I am in Tampa and it was given to me by a client who had it in the garage for years and couldn’t recall where he got it. It had enough unique features that I couldn’t find one like it in a few books I found at the library on early American Windsor chairs, or eBay, or etsy or any of the auction houses that post online. </p><p><br /></p><p>Those features I tried to find were the double spindles at the bottom, the 5 spindle upper back and absence of carving on ears. I found some of each, but none with all of those features. I thought that would help rule out machine manufacturing, so it made me think it might be either a hand built predecessor to the common Windsor chairs of the 50s and 60s, or that it was at least a late 20th century Amish creation, both of which I suspect would help push up the value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="J.R., post: 909620, member: 11989"]I am in Tampa and it was given to me by a client who had it in the garage for years and couldn’t recall where he got it. It had enough unique features that I couldn’t find one like it in a few books I found at the library on early American Windsor chairs, or eBay, or etsy or any of the auction houses that post online. Those features I tried to find were the double spindles at the bottom, the 5 spindle upper back and absence of carving on ears. I found some of each, but none with all of those features. I thought that would help rule out machine manufacturing, so it made me think it might be either a hand built predecessor to the common Windsor chairs of the 50s and 60s, or that it was at least a late 20th century Amish creation, both of which I suspect would help push up the value.[/QUOTE]
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