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Hi,
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I have this oak rocking chair with rocking mechanisms like I have never seen. Do you know what this type of rocker is called? I hope so. Thanks so much,
Laura : )
Hi again Laura
Fred Taylor our American furniture expert sent me this interesting bit of info about your chair.
"Platform rockers were in use before the Civil War and became very popular in the third quarter of the century. The chair on AllExperts was an exprimental version of the late 1890s that was not very stable laterally and was discontinued quickly."
Many thanks to Fred for this.
Regards
Eileen
Hi Laura
Nice to hear from you.
This is called a platform rocker.
I remember a while back another query about such a chair.
I stated at that time that it was the very first time I had seen such a chair.
This is the second time LOL.
I also note your oak rocker has the original casters on the front.
The other chair did not.
Apparently platform rockers came into being in the late eighteen and early nineteen hundreds.
I suspect yours is an earlier version of one.
Great Chair
Kind regards
Eileen
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