Antique Black Stenciled Hitchcock Style Plank Windsor Country Farmhouse Chair

Six antique Glenister primitive elm dining chairs from Wycombe England. Circa 19th Century. The Thomas Glenister Company Temple End, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; chair maker (b. 1837-c.1891) Glenister’s was founded by Daniel Glenister, a High Wycombe publican, who allowed those who ran up tabs which they could not settle to instead make chairs in lieu of payment. Soon, the sale of chairs became more profitable than the primary business and in the 1841 census he lists his occupation as a chair manufacturer, supporting the theory that the business began in 1839. In the 1851 census Daniel Glenister is listed as having 50 employees. Thomas was the son of the chair maker, Daniel Glenister. He was apprenticed to Treacher’s furniture factory and then joined his father in business which traded as Daniel Glenister and Son from at least 1861. In the 1860s his brother-in-law Charles Gibbons joined the business and the firm became Glenister and Gibbons for a few years. In 1873 Thomas took the Moody and Sankey order for 19,300 public hall chairs for Moody’s Mission. This was a mission undertaken by the American evangelists Ira Sankey and Dwight Moody, holding public gatherings in British towns and cities. The chairs were simple wooden-seated models, made in a few weeks by contracting out to William Birch and Walter Skull...

Tricoire vintage French Country dining chairs, circa 1980s. Made from naturally distressed solid walnut with a serpentine scallope...

4 American Shaker ladderback dining chairs with rattan / wicker seats. Beautifully designed with unique cone shaped finials. Dimensions: 19.5" x 19" x 46"h, seat 19.5"

Two antique Duncan Phyfe Klismos style side accent dining chairs. Made of mahogany featuring open back with carved and fluted accents. Measure: 33".

19th century Windsor dining chair. Made from maple with arrow splats, plank seat and turned legs. Dimensions: 16" x 18" x 34"h, seat 17.5"

A lovely pair of 1930s Elizabethan revival dining side chairs by Jacob Summers & Sons. Part of their Hillcrest Suite as seen on page 18 of their catalog....

An antique set of four Hitchcock style dining chairs by Walter Smith offer gilt decorated ebonized wood construction with caned seats, signed Walter Smith, c1900 Measure - 33.5"h x1...

For FULL item description click on CONTINUE READING at the bottom of this page. Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A Set of 4 Vintage L Hit...

Set of 6 American Federal Hitchcock style black painted side chairs with floral decoration on back.

Pair of 2 Hitchcock Black Federal Side Chairs, Rush Seats. These vintage Hitchcock chairs are black lacquer painted and embellished with ochr...

Beautifully hand carved set of low back Windsor style dining side chairs made from yew wood, pierced splat backs and well figured seats raised on turned legs united by simple stretch...

A pair of handcrafted Windsor dining side chairs in the Rockford style by Amish craftsmen. Solid oak, bowback, cattail spindles, solid seat, turned legs, and turned stretchers. Made...