Bill and Gerry Cotton visiting William Sergeant in Lincolnshire in 2013

Bill and Gerry Cotton visiting William in Lincolnshire in 2013 WS 104

I was honored to be visited by the county's leading authority on regional chairs, Bill Cotton and his wife, Gerry. They stayed several hours and we had so much to talk about; it only took a few minutes for Gerry to find a really faint maker's stamp on a chair that I had had for many years and never noticed! This picture shows them stripping the rushing off a chair attributed to East Anglia; some of the rushing bars were cracked and the chair was a danger to anyone who sat in it. We also hoped that we might find some name on these hidden bars but were out of luck.

© William Sergeant 2013