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George Hunzinger

Hunzinger “Woven Wire” Patent Seat

August 11, 2009

This is a George Hunzinger “Dining or Library Chair No. 44″ from the Kimball’s Book of Designs: Furniture and Drapery (Boston, 1876). I have a question into the seller of the chair on the right to see if the original wire, which you see clearly in the original catalog image, is retained behind the added [...]

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George Hunzinger Lounge Chair

June 30, 2009

George Hunzinger furniture fans will probably be interested to see this chair design by him based on the 1869 brace patent. This is not a common form and I personally haven’t seen one in the past. You can see the chair without arms in the Hunzinger book on page 66. Of interest to me are [...]

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Emerson & Son Spiral Table

March 14, 2009

I recently purchased an Emerson & Son furniture catalog from 1893 which I will make available on the catalog page in future. What caught my eye in the catalog was the image seen below. As I said to Paul Tucker in an email, it is very “Merklenesque”, as in the Merklen Brothers. Hopefully, some of [...]

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Hunzinger 1869 Patent Chair

January 30, 2009

Whoa. It has taken me 5 days to isolate an issue on this blog that prevented me from creating new posts. It is easier to troubleshoot problems where nothing works at all then to troubleshoot the case where everything works on the site except adding new posts. It has not been fun and has broken [...]

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“Hunzinger Chair” Mystery Part III

January 12, 2009

Sorry if this series of posts is hitting the press slowly, but that is intentional as I am getting new information real-time and I want to be sure that you get it as it rolls in. As we’ve been exploring in the past two posts (Part I, and Part II), we’re trying to determine if [...]

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