Lincolnshire hoop back Windsor side chair stamped SHIRLEY GRANTHAM with 6 long spindles, straight seat sides, ring and cove front leg turnings with 1 lower ring, plain back legs with H stretcher and additional rear stretcher WS 84

Lincolnshire hoop back Windsor side chair stamped SHIRLEY GRANTHAM with 6 long spindles, straight seat sides, ring and cove front leg turnings with 1 lower ring, plain back legs with H stretcher and additional rear stretcher WS 84

This chair was probably made in the workshop of William Shirley senior before he moved to Birmingham in the early 1840s at about the same time that Willian Shirley junior moved to Caistor. Chairs stamped SHIRLEY GRANTHAM are uncommon.

© William Sergeant