American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts

Each in overall fine and stable condition.  Retaining an even, refinished color and surface. Scuffs, marks, and scratches consistent with age and use. Appears to retain the original knee returns. Corner blocks (ash or chestnut) are replaced and show an applied stain.  The slip-seats (likely oak), while seemingly early, show high-powered circular saw marks to the insides of each rail and have an applied stain suggesting they are replaced, though likely of early 20th-century replacement.  Each chair shows repairs to the crest rail, one with repairs at the junction with the splat where visible cracks exist through the carving, while both show repairs at the junction with the back supports, or stiles.

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