Period Correct Chairs

[Okefinokee Outlaw]

Where might one locate folding canvas chairs?

[River City John]

www.foldingchairshop.com/all-folding-chairs.htm

www.njsekela.com/OSCommerce/catalog/index.php?cPath=23&osCsid=ece5c08f39bc4b5993d29a6a47f0dcce

I'll look for some other sources later.

RCJ

[Cherokee Reb]

Panther Primitive sells some great fold up oak and canvas chairs. Several of the Civil War suttlers and Crazy Crow also have them available.

Check locally for groups who hold 18th and 19th century trade fairs. Often local reenactor / craftsmen will have them for sale.

The wooden directors chairs with a beige/white seat and back is also close to ones shown in late CW era pics of officers.

Hope that helped.

CR

[Okefinokee Outlaw]

Thanks folks.  Great stuff.

[Rowdy Fulcher]

Howdy Pards
Pier 1 has the folding directors chairs . I purchased one to have at the Nationals . Hope to use it next year .

[RickB]

Here is a link to the Pier one chairs. Are these considered period correct?

http://www.pier1.com/Catalog/Furniture/tabid/981/CategoryId/158/ProductId/6211/Default.aspx?ProductName=Black-Director's-Chair

If so i'll have to buy a couple. This price is much better than most.

[Deadeye Don]

Here is a really nice folding camp chair.  A bit pricey, but would look great in a camp and would probably last a long time.
http://www.fcsutler.com/fcblankhavers.asp

[Cherokee Reb]

If you do an Internet search for reenactor folding chairs, you will find lots of pics of CW era chairs that look like the modern directors chairs. While not 100% correct, it would pass muster at anything we do. You'll probably see one in my camp next year... And you know how I am

Unless I can talk Ottawa Creek into throwing up a couple SW style wickiups next year.....

CR

[TwoWalks Baldridge]

Here is a link to the Pier one chairs. Are these considered period correct?

http://www.pier1.com/Catalog/Furniture/tabid/981/CategoryId/158/ProductId/6211/Default.aspx?ProductName=Black-Director's-Chair

If so i'll have to buy a couple. This price is much better than most.

They also have it in natural which I think would be better than the black.
http://www.pier1.com/Catalog/Furniture/tabid/981/CategoryId/158/ProductId/3042/Default.aspx?ProductName=Director%27s-Chair-Barstool--Natural

[Tascosa Joe]

I bought 3 directors chairs a couple years ago.  2 from World Market and 1 from Pier 1.  Pier 1 is the better quality.  All were either white or off white in color.  You can take the plastic feet off of the chairs and change the screws from philips head to common head and have a fairly authentic chair.  We had a huge thread on chairs 2 years back.  I think it was in the Chambers Forum.  Lots of different chairs.

[Tascosa Joe]

OO:
Here is the link to one of the previous threads that has a lot of good information.

http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,26859.0.html

T-Joe

[Pancho Peacemaker]

I've bought some chairs from here:

http://www.ushist.com/american_civil-war_camp_equipment_f.shtml

I believe all their gear is made by Panther Primitives.

Good quality.

[River City John]

https://picasaweb.google.com/Booker1942/1896AcmeChairCompanyFoldingChairsForChurchHallUndertakersUse

Above is a link to an Acme 1896 folding chair catalog. In particular, notice photo # 18, catalog page 16 of chair No. 42, still found all over in second hand shops, etc. as many churches, halls, schools and lodges had similar chairs in use even up through the 50's.
Yuma City and I bought a couple on the way down to the KVC Two-gun shoot for $15.00 bucks each on a chance stop at a roadside Antiques Mall. If your backside is sensitive, a seat and a back cushion could be added.

RCJ

[Forty Rod]

You might try Dixie Gun Works and Cumberland General Store.

Okay, strike CGS.  They don't seem to have much anymore.

[Tjackstephens]

I have a couple wooden folding chairs that was in my wife's family, they are correct. But my pride is two Civil War canvas easy chairs. My friend Jim Johnson (Fencepost) a cowboy shooter and Civil War reenactor made. He made them from a picture of a camp of Civil War officers. Last year (2010) they were a big hit at the tent city during the National. Several cowboys took measurements and drawings. They are very good to relax in.  Tj  

[Delmonico]

Here is part of our camp at RCS this year, the folks in it repersented a slight differance in time periods, the blacksmith and the ropemaker and I do post Civil War, add a Civil War renactor and a buckskinner and toss our gear around and it made a nice picture:



All the cok gear except the fire irions are mine, the haversack and that chair are Jared's the Civil War guy.  The camp stool is mine, Ron the buckskinner gave it to me, some friend of his makes them.  It's great for me when I have to keep an eye on something cooking at the fire. 

The big wooden box belongs to the blacksmith, it don't contain an ice chest, it is one.  The tent and the rest of the furnature belongs to Ron the buckskinner, the jars are more modern, Liz the rope maker was selling apple butter and jams and them and the stainless bowls containg biscuits I baked are for samples for her to sell.  Some of my stuff is under the tarp, I can see someone must have made a grocery run and it isn't put away yet when I took this picture.

This is a demo for tourist types and we have several hundred wander through.

This picture looks pretty good, except we have someone who left a water bottle and we have so many around, we have to borrow some tables from the park, also Liz's propane stove is there, in the future we want to eliminate it, but she makes apple butter on site as a demo and the open fire is to hard to control for that with her making rope also, we all tend it and stir it.  When I get a better pickup and a trailer I'll bring my cook stove. 



The peach can on the ground is for butts if anyone needs it.  The kid is a new addition and they borrowed some stuff for him, he'll get better stuff in the future, but at least we have added a young fella.

Also this one of me working:



The cupboard a friend made about 10 years ago it's served well and don't look bad but is at the end of it's life, the new one I'll going to make with out the plywood, but the first one was a quick build to try it and see how we liked it.

The flour in the paper bag is OK into the 1880's when prepackaged started to come on the market to compete with bulk.  I'm not sure I like the pattern on the blue and white bag the extra dish towels are in, but the material was free.

What we did do was to give good lessons in history to several hundred tourist types that weekend.  I take several 100 pictures each trip and look them over and use those to correct what I don't like.  The wife and I are moving to a house we bought in a week, I'll have a 1 stall garage to spread the camp gear out and get stuff sorted out better.  There is perhaps a half a pick-up load that has been bought at thrift stores and garage sales that hasen't even been sorted through yet.  This dang thing has almost become a monster.

[Texas Lawdog]

I checked out the chair that Dixie Gun Works has for sale. It states that it is not recommended for folks over 250 lbs. I need a real heavy duty one rated for over 300 lbs.

[Forty Rod]

Try to buy a step ladder, step stool, or much of anything else rated over 250 pounds.  I've been fighting that for years.

[Delmonico]

Here is some camp furniture from the Brady collection:









Should be plenty more if anyone wants to search:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

[Major 2]

I know the question was Folding chairs  

Which are inherently weaker...   Jim & 40Rod

so how about this

http://compare.ebay.com/like/230621359928?ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar