Condition report:
43cm high from the floor to the top of the seat rail (not including the rise of upholstered drop-in seat).
These chairs are very similar but details vary, including two with a more obvious raised pad foot, another with a less raised foot and three others just with a general pad. Variations between some of the turned features on the back stretchers and scrolled detail on the chair backs.
The chairs are all pretty structurally sound considering age and use. There is some light shrinkage between some joints.
The chairs were probably made provincially and at some point they have been through a workshop, strengthened, tidied, drop-in seats redone and railed. One chair with more obvious re-pegging to the back leg and probably a later rail to the back below the shoe.
Overall chips, scuffs, dents and abrasions commensurate with use and age. Some variation in colour between areas, the chairs having probably been varnished and polished at some point. minor shrinkage in areas.
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