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 ...

rockers or the simple elegance of a Shaker rocker. Victorian devotees search for Lincoln, carpet and platform rockers. Arts and crafts collectors and modernists focus on the Mission oak rockers of ...

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 ...

Wilson solemnly entered Boling’s tongue-in-cheek letter in the Congressional Record: “I . . . request that you obtain for me a subsidy on our platform rockers. We are now making about 1,000 a ...

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 ...