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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Pair of Antique Cottage Chairs

From Penderyn Antiques

£595

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19th century

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19th Century Rosewood Bobbin Chair

From Henry Fowler Antiques

£700

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18th century

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George II Oak Corner Chair

From W.R. Harvey & Co. (Antiques) Ltd

£1,750

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19th century

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A Victorian Ash and Elm Captains Chair

From Wickersley Antiques

£290

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A Yew Wood Low Back Windsor Chair Rockley Maker

19th century

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A Yew Wood Low Back Windsor Chair Rockley Maker

From Wickersley Antiques

£590

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19th century

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Five Elm Lancashire Spindleback Dining Chairs

From Harrison Antique Furniture

£490

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19th century

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Victorian Low Back Windsor Chair

From Country Homes Antiques Stirling

£390

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19th century

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Childs Rocking Chair 19th Century

From Elaine Phillips Antiques Ltd

£385

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18th century

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Welsh Stick Chair, Swansea Valley, Circa 1780

From WelshAntiques

£2,900

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1900 - 1920

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A Set of Seven Ash and Elm Windsor Chairs

From Chequers Antiques

£865

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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.

A Yew Wood Broad Arm Windsor Chair Allsop Worksop

19th century

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A Yew Wood Broad Arm Windsor Chair Allsop Worksop

From Wickersley Antiques

£795

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19th century

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19th Century Howard & Sons Style Arm Chair

From Spencer Robertson Antiques

£780

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1920 - 1940

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Antique Vintage Set of 8 Oak Dining Chairs C.1930 – 6 Side Chairs + 2 Armchairs, Heavy Solid Kitchen Seating

From Prior and Willis

£2,096

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19th century

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19th Century English Mahogany Armchair

From Lee Wright Antiques & Interiors Ltd

£950

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19th century

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Early 19th Century West Country Windsor Armchair.

From Rupert Hitchcox Antiques

£165

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Antique Elbow Chair, English, Beech, Smoker's Bow, Captain Seat, Victorian, 1880

19th century

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Antique Elbow Chair, English, Beech, Smoker's Bow, Captain Seat, Victorian, 1880

From London Fine Antiques

£895

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Antique Country Chairs

Pair of Antique Cottage Chairs

19th Century Rosewood Bobbin Chair

George II Oak Corner Chair

A Victorian Ash and Elm Captains Chair

A Yew Wood Low Back Windsor Chair Rockley Maker

Five Elm Lancashire Spindleback Dining Chairs

Victorian Low Back Windsor Chair

Childs Rocking Chair 19th Century

Welsh Stick Chair, Swansea Valley, Circa 1780

A Set of Seven Ash and Elm Windsor Chairs

A Yew Wood Broad Arm Windsor Chair Allsop Worksop

19th Century Howard & Sons Style Arm Chair

Antique Vintage Set of 8 Oak Dining Chairs C.1930 – 6 Side Chairs + 2 Armchairs, Heavy Solid Kitchen Seating

19th Century English Mahogany Armchair

Early 19th Century West Country Windsor Armchair.

Antique Elbow Chair, English, Beech, Smoker's Bow, Captain Seat, Victorian, 1880

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