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Hello,
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Our dog had surgery recently, felt trapped downstairs, and chewed the back of one of our Chippendale arm chairs which we were using to keep him from running up and down the stairs and hurting himself :( You may or may not be able to tell by the picture, but the only damaged part of the chair is the horizontal top bar on the back. It is quite damaged - I'm guessing beyond repair. The wood is not just chewed and dented, it is chewed with significant wood missing. The other 8 non-armchairs have Marlborough style-legs if that makes any difference in identification of the chairs. I'm not exactly sure of their age, but they have been in our family since the 1920's/30's I believe. We have a set of 10 in excellent shape except for this chair now. We have the other matching armchair in excellent condition, so we have an example to find a match or have a new piece made off of. What are our real options to fix this? Thanks very much.
Michael
Hi Michael
Nice to hear from you.
What a shame this has happened.
Its unusual to see a full set of 10 chairs like you have.
If you take both the damaged chair and its mate to a competent restorer, the damage can be fixed.
It will involve taking the chair apart and duplicating the damaged areas.
Certainly not inexpensive but its the only way.
And get in touch with one of our antique experts to get more info on these chairs. They are lovely.
Regards
Eileen
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