How many come up for sale each year?

About eleven antique bar stools reach the market on Sellingantiques in a year, spread across 30 different dealers. No single dealer defines the category, so what's listed at any one time is a mixed field rather than one house style.

What wood are they usually made from?

Elm is the timber named most often, in 13 of 107 titles, generally as the solid seat with beech legs beneath it. The two appear together in title after title, in both orders. Birch turns up for a clerk's stool, pitch pine on cast iron machinist frames, and walnut and golden oak in the upholstered group.

Are pairs and sets available?

Singles are the norm. Pairs appear in a minority of titles, and sets of three, four, five and six each turn up once or twice. The largest lot recorded is a collection of ten stools.

How old are antique bar stools?

Dealers' own dating is dominated by 19th Century, used in 41 titles, which is a century-wide bracket rather than a date. Victorian adds eight more in the same register. Forty listings carry a clean year, and those run from 1890 to 1940, clustering in the 1920s and 1930s. Edwardian is used as a label ten times, Regency twice.

Do industrial and workshop stools sell here?

Yes, they make up around a tenth of the listings. Machinist, laboratory and workshop stools appear, some on cast iron bases with pitch pine seats, some in riveted metal. Adjustable-height examples belong mostly to this group, though only two are described that way across the archive.

What are the highest-priced types?

Metal and upholstery hold the top. French brass cocktail stools, bronze and leather ships stools, cast iron tractor stools and walnut with tan leather in the Art Deco taste all sit above the wooden country stools. Named traditions lift a listing too: Arts and Crafts appears three times, with Cotswold school and Windsor attributions also above the middle of the range.