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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A 19th Century Yew Wood Windsor Armchair of Large Scale

From Hansord Antiques

£1,850

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19th century

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Yew Wood Child's Chair

From James Reeve (Quinneys of Warwick)

£595

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19th century

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Possibly Unique Windsor Chair Snake Head Carvings

From Wickersley Antiques

£1,890

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19th century

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Early 19th C. Elm Arm Chair

From The Old Yard

£380

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19th century

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Set of Six Country Sheraton Dining Chairs

From John Hubbard Antiques

£975

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Antique English Large Victorian Ash & Elm Lancashire Spindle Back Country Farmhouse Kitchen Dining Armchair / Chair (Circa 1890)

19th century

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Antique English Large Victorian Ash & Elm Lancashire Spindle Back Country Farmhouse Kitchen Dining Armchair / Chair (Circa 1890)

From Yolanda Gray Antiques

£395

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18th century

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Lambing Chair

From D J Green Antiques

£2,200

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A Good Antique Low-back Style Windsor Chair.

19th century

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A Good Antique Low-back Style Windsor Chair.

From Stalham Antique Gallery

£360

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19th century

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Yew Wood Broad Arm Windsor Chair

From Wickersley Antiques

£790

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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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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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19th Century Broad Arm Yew Wood Windsor Armchair

From Abersoch Antiques

£795

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19th century

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Early 19th Century Comb Back Windsor Chair

From Shaun King Antiques

£685

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18th century

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18th Century Elm Child's Rocking Chair

From Martlesham Antiques

£680

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18th century

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Set of Sixteen 18th Century Country Chairs

From witchantiques.com

£4,850

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19th century

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Victorian Elm Ladderback Armchair

From Affordable Old Furniture

£250

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19th century

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A Rare Childs High Chair in Yew Wood

From Wickersley Antiques

£990

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Antique Country Chairs

A 19th Century Yew Wood Windsor Armchair of Large Scale

Yew Wood Child's Chair

Possibly Unique Windsor Chair Snake Head Carvings

Early 19th C. Elm Arm Chair

Set of Six Country Sheraton Dining Chairs

Antique English Large Victorian Ash & Elm Lancashire Spindle Back Country Farmhouse Kitchen Dining Armchair / Chair (Circa 1890)

Lambing Chair

A Good Antique Low-back Style Windsor Chair.

Yew Wood Broad Arm Windsor Chair

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

19th Century Broad Arm Yew Wood Windsor Armchair

Early 19th Century Comb Back Windsor Chair

18th Century Elm Child's Rocking Chair

Set of Sixteen 18th Century Country Chairs

Victorian Elm Ladderback Armchair

A Rare Childs High Chair in Yew Wood

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