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On p. 291 of David Knell's 1993 book English Country Furniture, is an image of two rush seated armchairs, described as North Country, possibly Lincolnshire. A copy of this page can be seen in a perspex holder on chair No. 8 in this Exhibition. The remarkable feature about these two chairs is that they are both incised with initials and dated, one as 1739 and the other as 1742. William Sergeant recently happened across an identical chair while visiting a house in a village close to Spilsby. He was told that the chair had been in the same house for the last 65 years and was originally purchased in 1953 from a local house clearance sale. This chair is shown above along with the detail of the top ladder with the date of 1755.

William Sergeant gave a talk in Alford Manor House on the 5th June 2019 which may be watched here.  The questions and answers afterwards may be seen here.