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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Set 8 Penny Seat Windsor Kitchen Chairs

From Courtyard Antiques

£1,475

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18th century

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Set of Four Georgian Mahogany Chippendale Style Country Chairs

From Beresford Antiques LTD

£375

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19th century

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A Very Pretty Pair of French Side Chairs

From Youlls Antiques

£475

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1900 - 1920

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Set 6 Oak Farmhouse Dining Chairs

From Sussex Antiques and Interiors

£795

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1900 - 1920

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Set 8 French Farmhouse Dining Chairs

From Sussex Antiques and Interiors

£1,250

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C. 1840, Beech, Ash & Elm, Thames Valley Windsor Chair (English)

19th century

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C. 1840, Beech, Ash & Elm, Thames Valley Windsor Chair (English)

From White Space Antiques

£345

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18th century

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18th Century Thames Valley Arm Chair

From Oliveri Antiques Ltd

£1,750

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18th century

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Queen Anne Dining Chair - Early 18th Century

From M Cross Antiques

£350

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19th century

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Broad Arm Windsor Armchair

From Millers Antiques

£575

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19th century

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True Set 6 Bullseye Windsor Kitchen Chairs

From Courtyard Antiques

£1,275

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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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Windsor Armchair

From Millers Antiques

£495

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1900 - 1920

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Elm and Ash Set of Four Chairs

From Gaylords Antiques

£595

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19th century

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19th Century Windsor Armchair

From Walton House Antiques

£580

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1900 - 1920

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Green Georgian Style Wing Armchair

From Heathcote Antiques - S.A Webster

£375

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19th century

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Antique Pair of French Giltwood Bergere Armchairs

From London City Antiques

£3,395

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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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Antique Country Chairs

Set 8 Penny Seat Windsor Kitchen Chairs

Set of Four Georgian Mahogany Chippendale Style Country Chairs

A Very Pretty Pair of French Side Chairs

Set 6 Oak Farmhouse Dining Chairs

Set 8 French Farmhouse Dining Chairs

C. 1840, Beech, Ash & Elm, Thames Valley Windsor Chair (English)

18th Century Thames Valley Arm Chair

Queen Anne Dining Chair - Early 18th Century

Broad Arm Windsor Armchair

True Set 6 Bullseye Windsor Kitchen Chairs

Windsor Armchair

Elm and Ash Set of Four Chairs

19th Century Windsor Armchair

Green Georgian Style Wing Armchair

Antique Pair of French Giltwood Bergere Armchairs

Set of Eight Lancashire Rush Seated Chairs

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