What's the difference between a carver and a side chair?

The carver has open arms and heads the table. The side chairs in the same set have none. Sets are listed with that split built into the title, most often as 6+2 or 8 (6+2), meaning six armless singles and two carvers.

Are carvers usually sold singly or in pairs?

Both turn up in quantity. Pair appears in 354 titles, and near-identical descriptions run as singles and as pairs right through the range. Dining sets that include one or two carvers make up a large block of the listings too, rather than standalone chairs.

What wood are they made from?

Mahogany leads, mostly in the Georgian and Regency taste. Oak, elm, walnut and ash account for a separate country-chair population. At the upper end you'll see figured mahogany, faded mahogany, burr walnut, satinwood and yew named in the wording. Beech and bentwood chairs sit at the other end.

How old are antique carver chairs?

The dated listings run from 1700 to 1950, with 550 carrying a clean year. A few sampled pieces reach further back, including a laburnum armchair given as c.1680 and Derbyshire back stools of the same date. "19th Century" is the largest single bucket. Georgian and Regency are used as style brackets as much as dates, and sampled pieces labelled that way carry circa dates from 1780 to 1830 elsewhere in the title.

Is a Windsor chair a carver?

An armed Windsor does the same job, and 119 titles in this category use the word. It's a turned stick-built chair with a solid seat, commonly elm. Back forms named here include wheelback, comb back, bow back and lath back. Yew-wood Windsors are the country timber that consistently reaches the upper part of the range.

Do carver chairs carry maker's names?

Some do. Titles turn up with Stamped, Labelled, with makers stamp or Attributed to, and that lifts a piece. No single workshop name recurs across the category, though. The named work is scattered, one listing at a time.

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A carver is the open-armed chair that heads a dining set, named for the person who carved the joint at table.

Rare Set of 12 Original Victorian Oak Balloon Back Dining Chairs Including Two Carvers

19th century

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Rare Set of 12 Original Victorian Oak Balloon Back Dining Chairs Including Two Carvers

From Georgian Antiques

£8,500

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19th century

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19th Century, Chippendale Influenced Desk Chair

From Patrick Moorhead Antiques

£1,800

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1900 - 1920

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Set of 7 Hand Dyed Leather Armchairs

From FB Antiques

£8,750

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18th century

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18th Century Mahogany Armchair

From Pearse Lukies Antiques Ltd

£1,250

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19th century

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Sheraton Revival Open Arm Chair

From Philip Hunt Antiques

£480

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19th century

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Set of 12 Chippendale Style Mahogany Dining Chairs

From Patrick Moorhead Antiques

£14,000

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Antique Regency Quality Carved Mahogany Desk Chair

19th century

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Antique Regency Quality Carved Mahogany Desk Chair

From London City Antiques

£900

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19th century

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Yew Highback Windsor Chair

From Baggott & Co.

£1,250

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19th century

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8 Chippendale Style Dining Chairs, 19th Century

From Patrick Moorhead Antiques

£6,500

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19th century

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A Quality Regency Mahogany Armchair

From Beech and Springs Antiques

£575

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The largest thing to pass through Sellingantiques in this category is a suite of forty-two matching giltwood dining chairs. Sets of ten, twelve and fourteen are the usual top end.

1900 - 1920

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Walnut High Back Armchair

From Camden Antiques

£395

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19th century

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Antique Carved Mahogany Desk Chair

From London City Antiques

£1,285

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1900 - 1920

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Set of 14 20th Century English Antique Queen Anne Style Dining Chairs

From FB Antiques

£5,750

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1900 - 1920

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Set of 8 (6 + 2) Edwardian Period Hepplewhite Mahogany Dining Chairs

From Georgian Antiques

£3,300

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19th century

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Superb Pair of Library Carver Desk Chairs

From Wayne Long Antiques and Interiors

£695

3+ MONTHS AGO

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1900 - 1920

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Set of 8 Edwardian Chippendale Style Dining Chairs

From Sinclairs Antiques and Interiors

£950

3+ MONTHS AGO

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Antique Carver Chairs

Rare Set of 12 Original Victorian Oak Balloon Back Dining Chairs Including Two Carvers

19th Century, Chippendale Influenced Desk Chair

Set of 7 Hand Dyed Leather Armchairs

18th Century Mahogany Armchair

Sheraton Revival Open Arm Chair

Set of 12 Chippendale Style Mahogany Dining Chairs

Antique Regency Quality Carved Mahogany Desk Chair

Yew Highback Windsor Chair

8 Chippendale Style Dining Chairs, 19th Century

A Quality Regency Mahogany Armchair

Walnut High Back Armchair

Antique Carved Mahogany Desk Chair

Set of 14 20th Century English Antique Queen Anne Style Dining Chairs

Set of 8 (6 + 2) Edwardian Period Hepplewhite Mahogany Dining Chairs

Superb Pair of Library Carver Desk Chairs

Set of 8 Edwardian Chippendale Style Dining Chairs

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