LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A SET OF THREE BIRCH CHAIRS
Late 19th century
Each with spindle bar splats and ring-turned legs, each stamped three times 'F.EAST.DUNDEE REGISTERED DESIGN'; and another birch chair with pierced toprail and tapered legs, stamped 'EAST'S REGD DESIGN' and branded beneath the seat 'ER' flanking a crown
See Illustration (4)

Literature

See Regional Furniture Society Journal X (1996) pg 100-111 for a discussion on the firm of East.

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Lot Essay

Albert and Frank East, sons of Francis East, set up their own manufactory in about 1894 at South Road, Lochee, Dundee; Francis East had settled in Dundee in 1860 having been a chair maker in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire and he imported to Loan Scotland the manufacture of inexpensive Windsor chairs, producing distinctly Scottish designs as well as specialised seating such as advertising chairs (see lot??) and barbers' chairs.

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