Hello out there,

   now I need some help researching a new chair restoration project. A neighbor asked me to replace the missing stretcher on this dining room (?) chair (note vacant hole on back leg in photo). I became curious about the chair’s history when I found a manufacturer’s label beneath the seat frame. The red-and-white label reads, in part, “Heywood Brothers … [Wakefi -?]eld … Buffalo … U.S.A.”

    Any idea when this chair was made? My online research on Heywood Brothers suggests a Massachusetts-based furniture factory originating in the 1830’s; there’s no mention I can find on a Buffalo (New York, I assume) factory, and this company seems better known by furniture collectors for its modern/Danish influenced designs.

Thank you, Fine furniture people!