Antique Wooden Rocking Chair

Fine antique furniture adds style and value to your home. Usually Antique wooden rocking chairs are standard chair mounted on rockers. These chairs were mainly built for indoor use.

There are many types of wood materials used for antique rocking chairs. Some of them are listed below,

Mahagony: Native of South America and Wet Indies, which is close grained hardwood. This wood is available in many colors like dark brown to red. Sometimes it also has spotted effect. This was very popular in Britain in mid eighteenth century.

Oak: Oak is very slow growing tree. This wood is hard and pale colored, but color darkens to shade of browns with age and polishing. Oak is heavy and solid wood. Oak wood was popular in the Georgian era and again became very popular in Victorian times.

Walnut: Close grained hardwood with colors from golden brown to light brown. There one different type in Walnut wood, Burr Walnut.

Rosewood: Hardwood with very dark brown color. It releases scent when wood is cut. It was not used for making hard wood furniture until starting of 19th century.

Elm: Most commonly used for Rocking chairs. It is hard and durable. It is easy to polosh wood with very attractive grain.

While choosing antique rocking chair see to that chair is really antique means it is at least hundred years old. Anything else is vintage or Collectible. Here are some things that you need to pay attention to:

Get closer look of rocking chair under bright light. Get a good look at all sides including rocker's bottom.

Test solidity of chair. Sit on chair push your weight to and fro, if chair wobbles it is loose and need some repairing

Authentic antique chair will have dirt in crevices and places which are hard to clean. If this is absent then piece is not old or it is refinished.

Chair should have uniform color; some variations due to exposure to atmospheric conditions can be taken in consideration. Avoid buying antique rocking chairs with burn marks.

Make sure that no part is missing and get second opinion from some knowledgeable person before buying very expensive Antique wooden rocking chair.

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