Details
An early Victorian brass-mounted mahogany campaign chair, with folding caned back and seat on baluster-turned legs with later block feet, with brass plaque J. Alderman, Inventor; Patentee and Manufacturer, 16, Soho Square, London.
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Further details
J. Alderman is recorded at this address c.1830-40 and seemed to have specialised in patented folding chairs, often bearing a similar label; see Dictionary of English Furniture Maker's 1660-1840, Beard and Gilbert,1986,p.6.