Governor Carver Chair
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This 1/6th scale model of a Governor Carver chair is made of maple with a stained and oiled finish. The seating is of hemp cord to simulate the original twisted rush. It's height is 7-3/16". The original chair is from New England about 1650-1700.
There is a chair in the Plymouth Hall Museum (www.PlymouthHallMuseum.org), Plymouth, Massachusetts, whose ownership was, at one time, attributed to John Carver (1576-1621), the first governor of Plymouth Colony. It was thought to have been brought over by John Carver on the Mayflower, but wood analysis showed that it was made from American white ash which was not growing in Europe at that time.
It was Wallace Nutting, in his Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1921, who first generalized that all early turned chairs, in America, with vertical spindles in the back above the seat were "Carver" chairs. Those with vertical spindles under the arms and below the seat were to be "Brewster" chairs. The originals he worked from are both at Plymouth Hall Museum.
These two turned chairs are now associated with Ephraim Tinkham (1649-1713) who worked in Plymouth and Middleborough, Massachusetts.
Further information about turned chairs of this period :
- A Plymouth Area Chairmaking Tradition of the Late Seventeenth Century by Robert St. George appears in The Middleborough Antiquarian 19, no.2 (December 1978), pp 3-12. The library in Middleborough, Massachusetts has a complete set of The Middleborough Antiquarian, 508 946 2470.
- American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730 : An Introspective Catalog by Benno Forman, 1987.
Notes About "Tinkham" chairs by Robert F. Trent and Karen Goldstein in American Furniture, 1998, edited by Luke Beckerdite, published by the Chipstone Foundation. www.chipstone.org/article.php/348/American-Furniture-1998/Notes-about-New-"Tinkham"-Chairs.
It was Wallace Nutting, in his Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1921, who first generalized that all early turned chairs, in America, with vertical spindles in the back above the seat were "Carver" chairs. Those with vertical spindles under the arms and below the seat were to be "Brewster" chairs. The originals he worked from are both at Plymouth Hall Museum.
These two turned chairs are now associated with Ephraim Tinkham (1649-1713) who worked in Plymouth and Middleborough, Massachusetts.
Further information about turned chairs of this period :
- A Plymouth Area Chairmaking Tradition of the Late Seventeenth Century by Robert St. George appears in The Middleborough Antiquarian 19, no.2 (December 1978), pp 3-12. The library in Middleborough, Massachusetts has a complete set of The Middleborough Antiquarian, 508 946 2470.
- American Seating Furniture, 1630-1730 : An Introspective Catalog by Benno Forman, 1987.
Notes About "Tinkham" chairs by Robert F. Trent and Karen Goldstein in American Furniture, 1998, edited by Luke Beckerdite, published by the Chipstone Foundation. www.chipstone.org/article.php/348/American-Furniture-1998/Notes-about-New-"Tinkham"-Chairs.