Identifying Antique Wooden Chairs
Be sure to sand down your piece to bare wood to see its natural coloring.
Identifying antique wooden chairs. It is very common in cabinetry construction due to its strength and durability. Examine the level of work that went into the furniture from the joinery finishing knobs and more. Basic English Furniture Styles.
Listed below are some popular types of antique chairs that originated in Europe and the United States during the past 300 years. The following criteria will help you determine if your old furniture is an English-made antique. Identifying the age and value of antique chairs can be difficult especially if there are no markings identifying the manufacturer.
Heres how this beautiful piece found its way into our home and a quick lesson in identifying furniture age. Learn 10 specific steps to establishing an accurate age for your antique furniture. Antique chairs were often made from rosewood elm birds-eye maple oak walnut hickory ash and cherry.
This expert advice will help you understand the options when rest. Professional appraisers are an option as well. Fred and Gail Taylors DVD Identification of Older Antique Furniture 17 3 SH and a bound compilation of the first 60 columns of Common Sense Antiques by Fred Taylor 25 3 SH are also available at the same address.
It can be difficult to tell these woods apart and if the wood has been stained or painted it can be even harder to identify them. If you are unsure about a piece of antique furniture or the type of wood it is made from bring it in to us. You might not be able to tell what period the chair is from but you can get a sense of what kind of chair it is and when it was made by identifying what chair type category it fits into.
Examine antique chairs to determine the woods used to build the chair a key style indicator. The wood is almost pink when first cut but darkens with age to beautiful browns and reds. This in turn might help you trace it back to its period of origin.