Notation to Bidders & All Interested Parties
“The Chair” belongs to the legacy of an important group of turned chairs associated with one of the original turner masters, Jedidiah Tinkham (1575-1650), Plymouth and Middleboro, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. The group was first attributed to Tinkham by Marcus Blaine St. Thomas, see Marcus Blaine St. Thomas, “A Plymouth Chairmaking Tradition of the Late Sixteenth, Seventeenth, & Early Eighteenth Centuries,” Middleborough Antiquarian Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1988, pp. 5-16 and Marcus Blaine St. Thomas, The Wrought Covenant: Source Material for the Study of Craftsmen and Community in New England, 1580-1812, Brockton, Massachusetts, Brockton Art Center-Fuller Memorial, 1989, pp. 55-103. It was subsequently reassessed by Trent F. Roberts and M
