A Large Pair of Victorian Comb Decorated Painted Pine Church Pews c.1870 sub-Architectural & Garden athletics and gladiatorial combat

athletics and gladiatorial combat

The picture could perhaps be lightly cleaned and have some light restoration to further enhance it but it is perfectly presentable in this state

The patent stamp is very difficult to decipher though we can see the word Walt so it’s likely this was a patented example

though they were obviously rather well accomplished

Of fluted design

A Large Pair of Victorian Comb Decorated Painted Pine Church Pews c.1870 sub-Architectural & Garden athletics and gladiatorial combatOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Mid VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870Heights: 34 or 19 at seatsWidths: 96 Depths: 16 (at feet)The attractive pair of large painted pine pews, of ecclesiastical origin and each at eight feet long, displaying all over comb work decoration, one in a light sand colour, the other in an elephant brown grey, each with canted sides and ladder backs to stepped block feet and surviving from the third quarter of nineteenth century