Delaware Chair Company, manufacturer of all kinds of double cane, rat[t]an and splint seat chairs, Delaware, Ohio.
A trade catalogue issued in 1873 by the Delaware Chair Company of Delaware, Ohio, printed in Cincinnati by Strobridge to advertise its cane, rattan and splint seated chairs to furniture dealers and buyers. Its engravings show armchairs in several back styles, from ladder-back rails to woven cane panels with turned posts and stretchers, giving designers a clear record of mid-nineteenth-century American chair construction and proportion.
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