51/72

This is a leg from a smoker bow, a type of Windsor chair, and is made of beech. It is an armchair with a low back and sturdy legs. (See 51/63, 51/70)

1 chair leg; wood (beech); good condition

Citation in publication [H. J. Massingham, 'Country Relics' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1939)] –'Hanging up under the thatch of the Hermitage is a row of nine chair legs, spindles and stretchers, each one of different size, shape and design in the turning, but one and all made of beech-wood, fresh and clean as a new pin and the work of a single living man...The heaviest leg in the line, some 15 in. [inches] long, belongs to the "Smoker" type of chair and is more elaborately turned with rings, keeled half-circles, cups, waists and ball than any of the others.' (pp. 52), MERL list / description [Massingham Collection, October 1989] – 'ACC. NO.: 51/72 // NAME: CHAIR LEG // NEG NO.: 35/1935 // STORAGE: '

1930-01-01 - 1939-12-31

1930s