Component, Seating Furniture

ca. 1923

Object ID:
1961.12864.1
Community:
New York, Mount Lebanon
Description

A wooden chair arm. One end is cut to a tenon to join with the back chair posts. The arms grows in width to the other end, which is rounded. The rounded end has a 9/16" diameter through-hole to allow the front chair post to join.

Notes

The inscription indicates that this is a sample chair arm made by Brother William Perkins who, with Sister Lillian Barlow, carried on the production of chairs at Mount Lebanon until about 1940.

New York Mount Lebanon

New York Mount Lebanon

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