Here is the other find from this weekend. Set of 8 chairs including one captains chair. They have been stripped previously and need a little work on some of the joints and a few broken pieces that will be easy to fix (I have all the pieces). The QS oak is really beautiful in quite a few pieces. I am already excited to color them but that is months away. They have tin pieces nailed on the seats which I will obviously replace with leather. Between the repairs, coloring, finish, etc. it will be a lot of work but I only paid $195 so I think I got a good deal???

I originally thought these might be Limbert (no label, just remnants) but the construction quality doesn't seem high enough (and didn't Limbert almost always use burned on marks? - I sure wish I had a complete database of all A&C makers including shopmarks! ). Pretty good construction but no pegged joints or anything super nice like that. Any ideas?

That's a great buy for 195, regardless of the work needed. When fully restored the value of the set will be greater than the sum of the parts. You could probably say 195 or more per chair when restored. The trick will be keeping the cost of the upholstery down. I checked some references but nothing popped out. Come-Packt had some pieces with the curved edge slats but nothing matching this set. Early Limbert was paper labels, even a little metal tag sometimes, so not always the branded mark. I'm so busy with work and other things that the database keeps getting put on the back burner, but maybe ten more pages or so to go, currently well over 400 which I find hard to believe myself!

They are close to a series if chairs in the 1903 Limbert catalog but very different in the details.

Limbert has a piece at the top of the chair with gentle, rounded curves while this one is a rectangle. The slats are very close in their designs but there are some differences. In the Limbert Chairs (#13 & #9) the ends of the back chair slats curve and touch at the top. For your chairs, there is much bigger gap and the slat shapes are elongated. Also, in the Limbert chairs, the leg supports come up through the seat and are cut flush with the seat. In your set, the chair seat overlaps the leg supports.

So, I conclude that these are not Limbert.
Bev.

Yeah, I had also concluded they are not Limbert after looking at the two catalogues I have. Just thought someone might have some other info given their distinctive features...