BurpHayes wrote:
> On Apr 27, 9:26 pm, "Kris Baker" <kris.ba...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "BurpHayes" <twosisters6...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Apr 27, 5:54 pm, "Kris Baker" <kris.ba...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "BurpHayes" <twosisters6...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> I was wondering if any one would know what this chair is and when it
>>>> might of been made. I know nothing about it except my mother-in-law
>>>> said that she had it as a child and that would of been about eighty
>>>> five years ago because she would of been around ninety five.
>>>>
>>>> She came from upstate New York so I am assuming that is where it came
>>>> from. Who the maker would be I haven't a clue and there is nothing
>>>> marked on the bottom of it.
>>>>
>>>> Here are the pictures of it [IMG]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/
>>>> gg128/Lauraetta/Album%20%20number%20two/HPIM1035.jpg[/IMG]
>>>> [IMG]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg128/Lauraetta/Album
>>>> %20%20number%20two/HPIM1034.jpg[/IMG]
>>>> [IMG]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg128/Lauraetta/Album
>>>> %20%20number%20two/HPIM1032.jpg[/IMG]
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>> Lauraetta
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>>> The first one works (kind of - I had to cut/paste the parts). The
>>> second two, I couldn't get to work.
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>>> Part of the problem is that you're trying to post the images
>>> themselves, rather than just the URLs.
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>>> Please post just the URLs, without the [IMG] and [/IMG], and
>>> put a couple of carriage returns between each.
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>>> Kris
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>> Okay Kris I will try it but when you copy it it copy's the whole thing
>> and you can't copy just the part without the [IMG] and [/IMG].
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>> [IMG]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg128/Lauraetta/HPIM1035.jpg[/
>> IMG]
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>> [IMG]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg128/Lauraetta/HPIM1034.jpg[/
>> IMG]
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>> [IMG]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg128/Lauraetta/HPIM1032.jpg[/
>> IMG]
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>> Thanks,
>> Lauraetta P.S I tried to copy as you said and it copied the whole
>> thing. You don't have a choice
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>> thanks -- that's much better.
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>> In the second image, of the bottom, it looks like there are two
>> plugged holes, where legs used to be? Is this chair a standard
>> child-size, or cut-down from an adult stool or chair?
>>
>> In any case, using some paint stripper won't hurt it a bit.
>> Take off the rubber bumpers and tape, and clean it up.
>> It's really cute, and is the kind of thing that is worth more
>> as a family piece, than you can sell it for.
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> No that is not two plugged holes it is where the bend of the top rail
> of the spindles is that goes down into the chair.
> Lauraetta
>
It's a late 19th Century "Hoop Back", loosely patterned after Windsor
chairs. These were mass produced
all over the USA until the mid 1920's along with " Captains/Firehouse
chairs.
Mike
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