The square cornered cabriole front legs of these chairs is unique within the English tradition of chairmaking. Both oral and documentary evidence points to its origin as the north-east corner of Lincolnshire, where a flourishing chairmaking tradition existed centred on the town of Spilsby.

See Bernard Cotton The English Regional Chair, Woodbridge, 1990, p.148 onwards for a fuller discussion and figures NE.184 and NE.185 for similar examples.