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.

19th century

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High Back Windsor Chair

From Stalham Antique Gallery

£570

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1900 - 1920

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Pair of Carved Walnut Louis XV Style Side Chairs

From Shackladys Antiques

£945

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19th century

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Set of Eight Victorian Elm Spindleback Rush Seat Dining Chairs

From Harrison Antique Furniture

£1,950

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1900 - 1920

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Pair of American Square Back Side Chairs C1920

From The Real Wood Furniture Company

£600

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Caistor Windsor Nursing Rocking Chair C 1880

19th century

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Caistor Windsor Nursing Rocking Chair C 1880

From The Real Wood Furniture Company

£575

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19th century

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Elm Windsor Chair

From Fernyhough Antiques Ltd

£495

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19th century

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A Deep Seated Armchair

From Henry Fowler Antiques

£1,250

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1900 - 1920

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Windsor Chairs Set of Eight Windsor Armchairs C1920

From Gerald Neville Antiques

£3,850

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19th century

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Mid 19th Century Yewwood Windsor Armchair.

From Rupert Hitchcox Antiques

£395

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19th century

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Set 6 Comb Back Windsor Country Kitchen Dining Chairs

From Courtyard Antiques

£1,175

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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.

19th century

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Four Victorian Windsor Lathback Kitchen Chairs

From Affordable Old Furniture

£450

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Windsor Armchair, High Back, Ash & Elm C1850

19th century

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Windsor Armchair, High Back, Ash & Elm C1850

From The Real Wood Furniture Company

£650

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19th century

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Pair of Victorian Crewelwork Armchairs

From Earl and Rymer

£3,250

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19th century

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Stunning Antique 19th Century Elm & Beech Smokers Bow Captains Arm Chair

From Richardsons Antiques

£365

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19th century

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A Particularly Good Darvel/irvine Valley Armchair, Third Quarter 19th Century Attributed to Duncan Mckellar of Fenwick, Ayrshire

From Jeckyll & Co

£1,450

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Fine Childs High Windsor Hoopback Chair.

19th century

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Fine Childs High Windsor Hoopback Chair.

From Stalham Antique Gallery

£395

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Antique Country Chairs

High Back Windsor Chair

Pair of Carved Walnut Louis XV Style Side Chairs

Set of Eight Victorian Elm Spindleback Rush Seat Dining Chairs

Pair of American Square Back Side Chairs C1920

Caistor Windsor Nursing Rocking Chair C 1880

Elm Windsor Chair

A Deep Seated Armchair

Windsor Chairs Set of Eight Windsor Armchairs C1920

Mid 19th Century Yewwood Windsor Armchair.

Set 6 Comb Back Windsor Country Kitchen Dining Chairs

Four Victorian Windsor Lathback Kitchen Chairs

Windsor Armchair, High Back, Ash & Elm C1850

Pair of Victorian Crewelwork Armchairs

Stunning Antique 19th Century Elm & Beech Smokers Bow Captains Arm Chair

A Particularly Good Darvel/irvine Valley Armchair, Third Quarter 19th Century Attributed to Duncan Mckellar of Fenwick, Ayrshire

Fine Childs High Windsor Hoopback Chair.

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