An early 19th century grained (to look like rosewood) open-a...

Hammer

£140

An early 19th century grained (to look like rosewood) open-armed dining chair; the rope-style top-rail above a crest-rail with central gilded circular plaque engraved:
'This chair was once the property of Charles Dickens at Gads Hill House, Shorne'
Scrolling arms flanking a rattan cane seat and with sabre front legs (old restorations, breakages and in need of refurbishment)
(Gads Hill Place was the country home of Charles Dickens for the last fifteen years of his life and the only house he ever owned. He first saw it as a small child, living in Chatham and working in the Kent countryside with his father. Gads Hill was the much loved retreat which represented his spectacular achievements and where he returned for family life and recuperation, here he completed 'A Tale of Two Cities' and wrote his last two novels 'Great Expectation' and 'Our Mutual Friend' and the unfinished 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'. He died in the house on 9th June 1870 at the age of 58