Following my posting about chairs recently I came across this one on display in the Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead.
A chair made from local oak by Johnson Blackett, a former shipwright from Tranmere. The tree came from Storeton Woods but the chair is not as old as it looks. it was made in 1887, following the Victorian fashion for making furniture that gave the owner a pedigree, heritage (and often respectability) that his family did not have.
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