This is a perfect example of what is locally known as "a porch rocker".
You can buy reproductions of them at the Cracker Barrel Restaurant... but yours is much better!
These have been made like this for well over 100 years so it's very hard to give…
The chest appears to be pine, probably made during the first 1/3 of the 20th century. Pine was very unfashionable at this time so the chest was likely painted, rather than stained as it is today.
Are those porcelain wheels? How cool that they surviv…
This looks like a piano seat to me... and it seems to be missing its piano. :)
I would guess that it dates, no earlier than circa 1935. Prior to that time, nearly all, piano seats had a wooden top which was hinged to reveal sheet music storage insid…
Has anyone ever seen a chair like this? I know it was made in Georgia by a man sitting out front of his house just making furniture for his house. I'm not sure of the date. I have five of them. They still have the fur on them too.
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