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Today talking about 18th century chairs I hope that I can show you how exciting it can
be because I love to collect these chairs they have a lot of history they got a lot
of age. There made of many different types of wood today you'll see a lot of our New
England chairs these chairs that we have right here to show your are banister back chairs.
There hand turned they pegged there construction is really solid you can see that they lasted
from the 1700's so there made really well. You can see the aged with a patina on them
and you'll see on these chairs that there's a lot of these chairs have been refinished
over the years. The paint has come off or the staining has come off and they have been
worn down you can see on the fronts of these chairs like here you'll see in a lot of them
this ware is just incredible. It doesn't happen overnight it takes hundreds of years to get
like this so these are some examples that we'll show you of how to look for and what
types of chairs are available that were made during the 17th century. And how well the
craftsmen put these chairs together you can see I'm just going to show you a really quick
example here on the back the theres incredible detail here with carvings that they left on
this chair. Very well worn down but these are some of the examples that we'll show you
in today's series of 18th century chairs.