Lincolnshire rush-seated ladder back side chair: straight back uprights with tapered feet & flattened top finials; 4 ladders with lower indented shaping, top ladder damaged; straight front legs morticed into the seat frame, with rushing bars; front stretcher with turnery often found in Lincolnshire, double side & rear stretchers

WS 11 Lincolnshire rush-seated ladder back side chair

This one turned up recently (March 2012) at a local auction house described as an early 20th century Arts and Craft chair - I could see by the photo published on the internet that it was a Lincolnshire chair and when I was able to handle it and inspect it closely everything was right about it . It was at the time I found it the only one I had seen with straight front legs and it does not appear in Dr B D Cotton's The English Regional Chair (1990). The top ladder at the back is missing a piece. This chair is compared with two others at No 196.

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