Antique 19th Century Victorian Ebonized Platform Rocker Rocking Chair Regency

Late Victorian Rocking Chair. Attributed to Stomps Burkhardt of Dayton, Ohio. Made from quartersawn oak with a heart shaped back, carved and pierced...

Early 20th Century American Country Rocking Chair. Made from oak with a ladder form and spindles. Features a contoured seat over short supports leading to rockers. Dimensions: 2...

Rocking armchair by Old Hickory Furniture Company of Martinsville, Indiana. Features a primitive Adirondack style with flared arms and rattan seat. History In the 1800's as pioneers traveled West across America, they discovered the useful and remarkable hickory tree. This small diameter tree grew throughout the Midwest in groups of twenty to thirty, surrounded by much larger trees. As the saplings struggled towards the sunlight above, they grew straight and tall - yet the diameter did not exceed two to three inches - even after twenty to thirty years of growth. The hardwood saplings were used for many different things (e.g. wagon wheel spokes, tool handles and furniture). The hickory saplings could be bent to fit the contours of the body, so the furniture was incredibly comfortable and strong. The inner bark strips could be woven together in a herringbone pattern to make soft yet durable chair seats and backs. In the 1890s Billy Richardson started selling hickory chairs and rockers on Saturdays on the town square in Martinsville, Indiana. Legend has it that Richardson and his father had made hickory chairs and rockers for the President Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage many years earlier. Others in the Martinsville area studied Richardson's products and banded together in 1892 in an abandoned church, producing hickory sapling furniture as a full-time business. They chose the name ""Old Hickory"" for the new company, the same nickname as the late President Jackson. When the company incorporated in 1899, a full line of products were available for shipping across the country to homes and resorts. Old Hickory furniture became so poplar that it was going to the new National Park Lodges in the West as well as Great Camps and resorts in the Adirondack Park. The most famous installation was the Old Faithful...

Primitive Rustic Adirondack lodge chair. Handmade from hickory with woven seat and back. Dimensions: 24" w x 28" d x 34.5" h; seat 17"

Antique Heywood Wakefield Woven Wicker Victorian Platform Rocker Rocking Chair. Item features a carved wood platform rocker base with rolling casters, ornate woven wicker wrapped fra...

Antique Eastlake Victorian Oak Wood Paw Foot Platform Rocker Rocking Chair with Newer Brown Naugahyde Upholstery. Circa 19th Century. Measurements: 39.5" H x 24" W x 30.5" D x 14" Se...

This is an antique rocking chair. An English, walnut framed armchair rocker, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1880. Relax and soothe the day...

A charming late 19th century Victorian period mahogany child's rocking chair. A carved bowed crest rail of deep form with walnut inlay back support above a leather seat flanked by sm...