Pook and Pook Americana & International Auction 2021

478 Rare Philadelphia combback Windsor armchair, ca. 1760 , branded by Thomas Gilpin. Illustrated in Schiffer Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County Pennsylvania , fig. 51, listed as the collection of Mrs. C. Wm. Johnson. One of Philadelphia’s earliest and most desirable chair makers, few signed examples of Gilpin are known. $8,000-12,000 127