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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2012, 03:15:17 am »
Which product is it?

http://www.woodfillers.co.uk/woodfillers-interior.htm

Could I use their wood stain or is the one you suggest better?

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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2012, 03:34:36 am »
I have some more chairs that I have bought.  Any chance some of you knowledgeable people could help with these too?


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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2012, 03:47:11 am »
Which product is it?

http://www.woodfillers.co.uk/woodfillers-interior.htm

Could I use their wood stain or is the one you suggest better?
Its the woodfiller...1st one on the list....yes can use their stain....but i would also suggest you buy a bottle of the ..Topps....its one of these products that No dealer in dark furniture..should be without...
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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #18 on: October 12, 2012, 04:32:19 am »
Bigwull, thank you so much for all your help.

Cheers

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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2012, 05:28:42 am »
Looks like a set of Eastlake dining chairs ca. 1900. Very nice!
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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2012, 06:14:11 am »
these are nice looking chairs...but i feel that there are two missing for them to be a full set of dining chairs....these  would have come with two carvers...if i,m not mistaken....it seems to be a trend nowadays, that when chairs become separated from the table.the first two chairs to be go walkies is the carvers...as these are so versatile...and can be used without a table...as for these six....i can see them in a large hall, as hall tables, and they can be sold in pairs..or quadruples...or altogether....if and when you come to sell them..make sure you plant the seed of hall chairs, into the minds of prospective buyers...
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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2012, 06:57:23 am »
I take it that by "carvers" you're referring to what we in the us call armchairs? Otherwise your comments are spot on.
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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2012, 07:20:47 am »
I take it that by "carvers" you're referring to what we in the us call armchairs? Otherwise your comments are spot on.
Yes...in the UK its a carver, that sits at the end of the table...but basically its a wooden armchair...see pic,....
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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #23 on: October 12, 2012, 07:42:22 am »
Yep!!
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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2012, 08:54:54 am »
Here in the south the armchairs are called captains chairs !! Just a geographical difference and what the locals call them !!
The set is as ghopper said in the Eastlake style !!

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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #25 on: October 12, 2012, 09:38:11 am »
They were bought in France and were described as Henri II.  I have researched this and they do appear to be in the Henri II style. 

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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #26 on: October 12, 2012, 09:51:21 am »
Here in the south the armchairs are called captains chairs !! Just a geographical difference and what the locals call them !!
The set is as ghopper said in the Eastlake style !!
We had this discussion before...over here this is a Captains chair....
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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #27 on: October 12, 2012, 11:58:03 am »
Wullie I am sure we could go on for days at this !!  LOL  I am told that when there was more river traffic and the ships came into port the chair at the head of the table was always given to the Captain wherever he had dinner !! Since those were usually armchairs they started calling them "the Captains Chair" !! Or at least thats the souths version !!

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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2012, 12:03:25 pm »
Well, we are both right...even if one of us is wrong!! ;D
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Re: Help with chair
« Reply #29 on: October 12, 2012, 12:06:19 pm »
I will agree with that !!

Can you take some closer pics of one of the chairs ?? Underside and back too so maybe we can tell the age !!
Can I ask how much you gave for these chairs in US dollars ?? And who did you buy them from ??  Shop, individual or,, ???
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