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Trying to Find Approx Age of Chair

12/02/2010 9:20 PM

I recently purchased a Koken Barber chair, it has a porcelain arms and base as well as a round seat that sits on a porcelain base. It was not in terrible condition but I sandblasted, and cleaned up and retouched the porcelain to get it back to working condition( the real work will have to come later) I have not been able to find anything on the chair to identify the year this chair was built although there are #'s on the footrest that have been worn down and are unreadable. The person I bought it from had owned it for over twenty years but purchased it from an antique store and had no information on it. Is there anyway to find out?

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Re: Trying to Find Approx Age of Chair

12/02/2010 10:27 PM

Assume you googled CR4 and assume this is the forum that can help. Well I think it developed that status on various occasions. But here we part.

Google

Koken Barber chair porcelain year of manufacture

and you find good hits.

My guess is:

http://www.antiquebarberchairs.org/history-of-my-antique-barber-chair.html

carries the answer! (1900 +)

Ups did I just add to the koken barber chair best information on CR4 status?

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Re: Trying to Find Approx Age of Chair

12/02/2010 10:46 PM

Thanks very much, I have been on that site as well and added a photo my guess was not that old but close

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Re: Trying to Find Approx Age of Chair

12/02/2010 10:35 PM

I guess 84 years. Maybe we could organize a pool on this, if the OP agrees to announce the results if/when they are found.

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Re: Trying to Find Approx Age of Chair

12/03/2010 10:40 AM

1921. What's the prize?

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Re: Trying to Find Approx Age of Chair

12/03/2010 11:13 AM

The barber shop in my area has similar chair like this.

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Re: Trying to Find Approx Age of Chair

12/03/2010 3:55 PM

I'm sure you've already looked, but some Koken models have the date stamped on the underside of the base.

Good luck!

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Re: Trying to Find Approx Age of Chair

12/03/2010 4:34 PM

No,the barber man does not permit any one to check the underside stamp,also my heath conditions.

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Re: Trying to Find Approx Age of Chair

12/06/2010 10:08 AM

Rick Harrison has a friend that knows all about these things. He has a pawn shop in Las Vegas.

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