Hello all

We found this one the other day and thought it was close to a Stickley Bros 359 1/2 chair, but the arm level seems to be a bit higher than in the 1912 catalog. Did the proportions vary from year to year?


Seems a shame someone put leather on the top stretcher

Oops...messed up with the pic

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Originally posted by MikeC:
Hello all

We found this one the other day and thought it was close to a Stickley Bros 359 1/2 chair, but the arm level seems to be a bit higher than in the 1912 catalog. Did the proportions vary from year to year?


Seems a shame someone put leather on the top stretcher

Good chair. Who knows re the height and proportions??? I bet there are lots of slight variations between final product and catalog pics/sizes for just about any company. What amazes me is to see how many products a company like S. Bros. had at one point and to think how much hand work was done along with the mechanization of the period. I can picture a foreman saying to a crew in the morning "Today we need to make 200 of model 359 1/2, get cracking". They would quickly look at the in-house drawings, set up a few machines and jigs and one guy would cut out 500 back legs, another guy would do 500 arms, a swarm of guys would do gluing and so on, and another crew would be doing tables, another doing sideboards etc. etc. repeated for dozens and dozens of products - must have been crazy, and yep I bet a fair amount of pieces were produced that were slighhtly off from the catalogs as a result.