Unstamped hoop back Lincolnshire Windsor side chair with 6 long spindles, straight sided seat, ball turned front legs with vase shaped feet, plain back legs, H stretcher

WS 146 Unstamped hoop back Lincolnshire Windsor side chair

This chair was one of several Lincs side chairs that I was lucky enough to acquire out of a farmhouse near Boston. They had been there for almost 40 years and were originally brought from a dealer in Bourne. Please take a moment to study the ball turnings with vase feet on the front legs; not at all typical for a Lincolnshire side chair. However, for those of you who study Dr B D Cotton’s The English Regional Chair (1990) you may be familiar with them as there are several the same in it . Just take a moment to glance at NE 117 p.136, NE 97 p.132, and NE 71 p.127. Then turn your attention to NE 147 p.140 , NE 155 p.142 and NE 116 p.135. All remarkably like the turnings above but none with a makers name on them - so I wonder which workshop they came out of? Until one is found with a maker's stamp on it, I am open to suggestions; my money was once on the brothers George and Edward Akrill from Grantham, but there may now be other indications as discussed at No 162. This chair is entirely compatible with other Grantham side chairs having been made from ash except for the seat which Adam Bowett pointed out to me is made out of beech.

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