Are these actually chairs for children?

A few are. "Childs" and "child" together appear in fewer than a hundred titles, against "windsor" in 242, so children's feeding chairs are a real but minority strand. The rest is high-back seating: Windsor armchairs, wing and library chairs, carved oak and walnut, and sets of tall dining chairs.

Which timbers turn up in the Windsor chairs?

Elm, yew and ash carry the group. Ash and elm is the standard country pairing, bent ash for the back and elm for the seat. Yew, named in around ninety titles, sits toward the top of the range, and burr or figured yew higher again. Beech, birch and stained softwood sit lower down.

What does a regional name on a Windsor mean?

Titles use place names as origin tags. Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, the Thames Valley, High Wycombe, Lancashire, the West Country, Wales and Darvel in Ayrshire all appear that way. An attributed Windsor sits well above an unattributed one in the range. Where no origin is given, the evidence offers no way of assigning one.

How old are the chairs in this category?

The dated field runs 1700 to 1940. Around a third of listings give a clean year; the rest use a century or a reign, and "19th Century" and "Victorian" between them cover a large share. There's a 17th-century tail of about thirty listings, and a body of 18th-century chairs. Titles reading "Carolean style" or "Jacobean style" describe the look, not the date.

Do listings cover single chairs or sets?

Both. "Pair" appears in 137 titles and "eight" in twenty-eight, with sets of six, ten and twelve in the record, so a fair number of listings are for multiples. Single chairs are still the common case. Matched and harlequin sets of yew Windsors sit at the very top of the range.

What unusual forms have appeared?

One-offs surface now and then: an Orkney chair standing 103cm, an Anglo-Indian cane peacock chair, a Ceylonese teak veranda chair and a Scottish lambing chair in oak. Others include a giant Philippine throne chair, a Burmese temple pair, a child's exercise chair in yew and a Dutch-painted child's chair in the Hindeloopen manner.

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Tall-backed seating of every kind, from stick-built Windsor armchairs in native timbers to winged fireside chairs and carved oak, gathered under a heading that also holds a smaller run of children's feeding chairs.

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Large 18th Century English Mahogany Gainsborough Chair

From Lee Wright Antiques & Interiors Ltd

£4,250

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C. 1850, Ash & Elm, High Comb Back Windsor Chair (English)

19th century

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C. 1850, Ash & Elm, High Comb Back Windsor Chair (English)

From White Space Antiques

£720

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1900 - 1920

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Antique Set of 4 Oak Barley Twist Dining Chairs | Carved Top Rail

From ActFurniture LTD

£425

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19th century

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19thc. Walnut Wing Armchair

From Piers Pisani Ltd Antiques and Furniture

£975

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1900 - 1920

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Pair of Large Carved Walnut Armchairs C.1900

From Collinge Antiques

£1,195

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1920 - 1940

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Good Antique Armchair Feather Filled

From Rams Head Antiques

£895

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1900 - 1920

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Pair of Georgian Style Wing Chairs

From Philip Hunt Antiques

£1,095

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19th century

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Highback Kitchen Armchair C.1880

From Collinge Antiques

£495

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18th century

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Large Scale 18th Century English Mahogany Wing Chair

From Lee Wright Antiques & Interiors Ltd

£3,850

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1900 - 1920

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Pair of Antique Leather Wing Back Armchairs

From Marylebone Antiques

£4,500

2 MONTHS AGO

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The most expensive high chair listing ever sold on Sellingantiques was a set of eight 19th century burr yew broad arm high back Windsor armchairs, in June 2020.

Antique Mid-victorian Walnut High-back Parlour Chair C.1850

19th century

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Antique Mid-victorian Walnut High-back Parlour Chair C.1850

From Founders Antiques

£295

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1900 - 1920

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Antique Set of 6 Edwardian Oak Dining Chairs | Two Carvers

From ActFurniture LTD

£625

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Large George III Style Leather Wing Armchair (C.1930)

1920 - 1940

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Large George III Style Leather Wing Armchair (C.1930)

From Robert Belcher Antiques

£1,195

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17th century

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17th Century Walnut Armchair Circa 1690s

From School House Antiques

£1,250

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Late 19th Century Carved Frame Needlework Upholstered Armchair.

1900 - 1920

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Late 19th Century Carved Frame Needlework Upholstered Armchair.

From Rupert Hitchcox Antiques

£295

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1900 - 1920

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Set of Eight Oak Barley Twist Dining Chairs

From Rawlings Antiques

£795

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Antique High Chairs

Large 18th Century English Mahogany Gainsborough Chair

C. 1850, Ash & Elm, High Comb Back Windsor Chair (English)

Antique Set of 4 Oak Barley Twist Dining Chairs | Carved Top Rail

19thc. Walnut Wing Armchair

Pair of Large Carved Walnut Armchairs C.1900

Good Antique Armchair Feather Filled

Pair of Georgian Style Wing Chairs

Highback Kitchen Armchair C.1880

Large Scale 18th Century English Mahogany Wing Chair

Pair of Antique Leather Wing Back Armchairs

Antique Mid-victorian Walnut High-back Parlour Chair C.1850

Antique Set of 6 Edwardian Oak Dining Chairs | Two Carvers

Large George III Style Leather Wing Armchair (C.1930)

17th Century Walnut Armchair Circa 1690s

Late 19th Century Carved Frame Needlework Upholstered Armchair.

Set of Eight Oak Barley Twist Dining Chairs

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