I’d call your chair a die-stamped, spindle-back platform rocker on casters and date it to just around 1900. Let’s start at the bottom. Your rocker rests on “improved” swivel casters ...

Then, a couple of years ago, he came across a Victorian platform rocker at an antiques store. "It had a spring, an adjustable back angle, and a footrest that came out: it was essentially a ...

By the next year the Wisconsin Chair Co. was making a line of “fancy floor rockers and platform spring rockers,” declaring that “all of our designs for 1892 are new and tasty.” The company ...

A. You have a Victorian Eastlake platform rocker. The straight lines of the overall construction and the incised carving are typical of the Eastlake period. Judging from your photo, the wood is ...

What can you tell me about it? - R.S. Answer: Your platform rocking chair, also called a patent rocker or spring rocker, is one of thousands mass-produced by a number of American furniture ...