£2,016
Auction: 25 January 2023 at 10:00 GMT
oak, with close-nailed leather upholstery
Literature: Moon, Karen 'George Walton', White Cockade 1993, p.48, pl. 5.5, illus.
Note: This is an upholstered variant of the 'Abingwood' chair, probably made by William Birch Ltd. of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. The original rush seated design was produced for the John Rowntree & Sons café in Scarborough, North Yorkshire (1895) and for the billiards room at Miss Cranston's Buchanan Street tearooms in Glasgow (1896)