What is the most common type sold?

The Windsor, by a wide margin. It runs to about a quarter of titles on Sellingantiques, in ash and elm and sometimes yew, with the back type spelled out in the listing. Most often it comes as a set of kitchen or dining chairs, or as a single armchair.

Which timbers turn up in these chairs?

Elm leads, then oak, ash, yew and beech, with fruitwood, walnut and mahogany in smaller numbers. Elm and ash are frequently named together, elm for the plank seat and ash for the bent and turned parts. Yew is the scarcest of the Windsor timbers in this archive and sits at the top of the range, now and then with burr figure in the splat.

How large do sets get?

Fours and sixes are the usual sizes named in titles, with pairs very common too. Bigger runs do appear. Sets of eight, ten, twelve, thirteen and even fourteen have come through. Listings distinguish a true set from a matched or harlequin set, which is a group of similar but not identical chairs.

Are country chairs always English?

The population is overwhelmingly English and Welsh, made by local turners, wheelwrights and village chairmakers using native timbers and regional patterns. Continental and further-flung pieces do appear in small numbers: French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, Irish súgán, Scandinavian and American.

Why do upholstered armchairs appear under this heading?

Country house armchairs share the heading with vernacular timber chairs. Deep-seated, buttoned-back, wing, club and library armchairs all sit here, around a seventh of the category. They behave differently from the timber chairs. The ones carrying a firm's name, stamped or attributed, sit at the highest end of everything listed under this heading.

Do unusual one-off forms come up?

They do, and generally once. A metamorphic chair that opens into library steps, a child's correction chair, a chair on wheels, an Orkney chair, a Fair Isle crofter chair and a lambing chair have each surfaced. Children's chairs are a steadier minor strand: high chairs, small rockers and miniature Windsors. The occasional settle or bench arrives under the heading as well.

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Chairs made outside the fashionable cabinet trade, by village turners and chairmakers in native ash, elm, oak and yew, for farmhouses, cottages and inns.

C. 1920, Pair of Chesterfield Armchairs, in Red Oxblood Rexine (English)

1900 - 1920

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C. 1920, Pair of Chesterfield Armchairs, in Red Oxblood Rexine (English)

From White Space Antiques

£1,880

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1900 - 1920

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Impressive Set of 20 (18 + 2) Elm Queen Anne Style Dining Chairs

From Philip Hunt Antiques

£9,950

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1900 - 1920

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Pair of C.1900 English Country House Scroll Back Armchairs

From TallBoy Interiors

£2,895

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Antique Victorian Oak Stick Back Armchair | Fireside Chair

19th century

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Antique Victorian Oak Stick Back Armchair | Fireside Chair

From ActFurniture LTD

£295

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1900 - 1920

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Pair of Early 20th-century Dinco Penny Chairs

From Steven Swann Antiques

£245

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Arts & Crafts English Oak and Rush Seat Armchair

19th century

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Arts & Crafts English Oak and Rush Seat Armchair

From TallBoy Interiors

£795

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1900 - 1920

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Ladies' Orkney Chair

From Artysan Cotswolds

£1,400

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19th century

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Set of Eight Lancashire Rush Seated Chairs

From Ropeworks Antiques

£795

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A Gge 111 Country Chippendale Elm Ladderback Open Arm-chair C1800, Tapestry Seat

19th century

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A Gge 111 Country Chippendale Elm Ladderback Open Arm-chair C1800, Tapestry Seat

From Gilt and Gesso

£375

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19th century

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19th Century Folk Art Primitive Child's Stick Back Armchair

From Earl and Rymer

£920

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Place names do a lot of work here: West Country, Thames Valley, Macclesfield, Ormskirk, Worksop, Yorkshire, Shropshire and Snowdonia all appear in titles.

1900 - 1920

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Lovely Louis XVI Style Pair of Bedroom Chairs

From Bedsteads

£795

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18th century

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Set 6 Georgian Country Kitchen Dining Chairs

From Courtyard Antiques

£940

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1920 - 1940

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Handsome Set of 6 Oak and Leather Dining Chairs

From Billy Hunt & Co.

£665

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19th century

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Antique Windsor Chair - Lincolnshire 19th Century

From M Cross Antiques

£400

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19th century

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Large Scale English 19th Century Antique Leather Armchair

From Miles Griffiths Antiques Ltd

£1,750

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1900 - 1920

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Set of Eight Arts and Crafts Dining Chairs

From Fernyhough Antiques Ltd

£995

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Antique Country Chairs

C. 1920, Pair of Chesterfield Armchairs, in Red Oxblood Rexine (English)

Impressive Set of 20 (18 + 2) Elm Queen Anne Style Dining Chairs

Pair of C.1900 English Country House Scroll Back Armchairs

Antique Victorian Oak Stick Back Armchair | Fireside Chair

Pair of Early 20th-century Dinco Penny Chairs

Arts & Crafts English Oak and Rush Seat Armchair

Ladies' Orkney Chair

Set of Eight Lancashire Rush Seated Chairs

A Gge 111 Country Chippendale Elm Ladderback Open Arm-chair C1800, Tapestry Seat

19th Century Folk Art Primitive Child's Stick Back Armchair

Lovely Louis XVI Style Pair of Bedroom Chairs

Set 6 Georgian Country Kitchen Dining Chairs

Handsome Set of 6 Oak and Leather Dining Chairs

Antique Windsor Chair - Lincolnshire 19th Century

Large Scale English 19th Century Antique Leather Armchair

Set of Eight Arts and Crafts Dining Chairs

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