Lincolnshire rush-seated ladder back side chair: straight back uprights with tapered feet & flattened top finials; 4 ladders with lower indented shaping; turned tapered front legs lower ring morticed into the seat frame, with rushing bars; front stretcher with turnery not from Lincolnshire, double side & rear stretchers

WS 52 Lincolnshire rush-seated ladder back side chair

I bought this one at the auction house in Market Harborough: take a good look and you will see that the front stretcher doesn't look right. There was other rush seated chairs at the same auction consigned from the same vendor with the same front stretcher but not from Lincolnshire. I think this chair had its original stretcher broken and one was robbed off the other chairs. There is a similarity in construction marks to WS 87, WS 70, WS 54 and WS 37.

©William Sergeant 2019