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Rare Antique Antler Chair Mid 19th century

Rare Antique Antler Chair Mid 19th century
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item e5980
A rare antique Black Forest antler chair with real stag antlers as legs and backrests, upholstered with original deer leather (torn and ripped). Austria ca. 1860.
width: 18.11" (46cm)
height: 36.61" (93cm)
depth: 21.65" (55cm)
seat height: 18.5" (47cm)
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The first antler furniture

Trophies of the chase have been used to decorate log cabins and hunting lodges for many a long years. Antlers and stuffed heads mounted on walls where the first hunting objects used to fashion homes. A hunting lodge replete with antlers and stuffed animals may probably have been the place where the first ideas for antler furnishings came up. Antler furniture are furniture which are either manufactured completely from e. g. stag antlers, or furniture which are decorated with antler pieces from the stag, deer, fallow deer... or veneered with sliced antler pieces to get a hunting design. Antler furniture are in addition often decorated with carved horn roses, wild boar tusks and horns from the ibex or chamois.

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