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Posted 11 years ago
ho2cultcha
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Just kidding, but maybe from the same time period? I found them in the trash near my house the other evening. i have to fix one of them, but i need to replace one of the pieces which will take some time and $. is it worth it?
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Is it missing the whole foot rest?
no just one of the stakes.
If it's just one slat that shouldn't cost to much to replicate & they do look like comfy chairs.
These look like Haywood-Wakefield deck chairs. My father has one just like these, except in original condition. It is very sturdy dark stained wood, with the original manufacturer logo still attached on the lower back. Model c182.
thank you distinguishedimports. do you know what years it was manufactured?
this is a very bizarre story, but i went back to the house a week later [last night] and found the missing staves on top of the trash! so now i have two complete chairs in very good condition. there's no rot or breakage anywhere. a lot of people have stopped to ask about them.
Well aren't you lucky, the dumpster god's are smiling on you! :-)
I think you need that little Bistro table in between them, with cold drinks on it of course!
and an umbrella to escape our scorching sun these days. if i forget my hat, and even w/ a hat these days, i come home from a day at the nursery a bit crispy around the edges!
I saw one of these for sale recently.Not sure if it was exactly the same but it was a few hundred dollars .
Very nice.
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Maybe you need that iceberg from the Titanic as well, then you would have a cool place to sit & ice for your drinks! :-)
Wow, great chairs!
thanks jameyrd! great idea walksoftly. these chairs really are great and in amazing condition too. i wonder if that green is the original color?
I not sure, but I think they need a more bold colour.
Have you seen my latest post?
I haven't seen these in years. They were doweled together at the joints where they fold. Nobody takes the time to use dowels anymore and few people would know what a dowel jig is. I bet the patina under that paint would be really pretty.
thanks fhrjr2. i kind of like the paint. i couldn't believe what great shape they were in when i finally got them put back together. do people think i should strip these or leave them w/ the old paint?
Stripping them of the old paint sounds like a lot of work. You could sand out the areas were the paint is missing & give the rest a light sanding & freshen them up with new paint.
The ones I remember were pretty close to that shade of green. For some reason all the houses were painted white and the doors, window shutters and porch chairs were painted green. I have seen them stripped so they could be refitted and repainted. If you plan to sell them you are probably better off leaving them as is. You never know what the next owner may like.
yes, you're right fhrjr2. i think i will leave them alone. i do like the green color anyways. do you think they are from the 1920s?
I couldn't tell you the age of these but I can tell you where the ones I saw as a kid came from and it might be they are that period. One place I worked growing up the house (entire house) was purchased through the Sears mail order catalog. Sears sold houses from around 1910 through 1940. The gentleman and his wife bought everything from Sears as did most of the people in town. The chairs were brought out in the spring after the snow was gone and put back in the barn before Halloween. They were always washed and dried when moved and had special covers to keep them good. Most of the people who had a few bucks had this type chairs the rest of us sat on an apple crate or bucket. Most of the Sears catalog archives are available to view for free on the internet.
thank you fhrjr2! i just dug out an old sears catalog from 1920 or so. will look it up!