1910s AD

Magazine Antiques, May, 2003 by Thomas Andrew Denenberg, Trina Evarts Bowman

P1. VII. Carver chair made by Wallace Nutting, Incorporated, Saugus or Ashland, c. 1920. Maple with a rush seat; height 46 7/8, width 23 3/4, depth 18 inches. This is pattern no. 464 in Nutting, Nutting General Catalog; supreme edition, p. 80.

Fig. 1. Interior of Nutting's furniture factory at 46 Park Street, Framingham, Massachusetts, c. 1927. Framingham Public Library, Framingham, Massachusetts, local history collection.

Fig. 2. Spinning-wheel chair; American, c. 1885. Painted maple and pine; height 51, width 25, depth 271/2 inches. Strong Museum, Rochester, New York.

Fig. 3. Wallace Nutting advertisement in The Magazine ANTIQUES, voL 10, no. 6 (December 1926), p.508.