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Hunzinger Victorian platform rocker
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This Hunzinger rocking chair is as quiet as it is beautiful. The chair is fully functional and is ready to rock. The patented "silent spring" makes this rocker stable, yet one of the best rockers ever. In 1882 Hunzinger secured a patent for a platform rocker that was to be his commercially most successful chair type Hunzinger was not the inventor of the platform rocker and had, in fact, been making them since at least 1876 with a preexisting spring system. The platform rocker differs from more common rockers with runners by rocking in place on its own base with the help of springs. Americans seem to have been especially fond of the rocking chair, was Europeans associated the rocking chair with invalidism and infirmity. Traditional rocking chairs on runners tended to take up more room and make more noise than platform ones. They also tended to creep along the floor when in use. Experiments with platform rockers began in the United States in the late 1860's. J. Wayland Kimball remarked in his often-cited catalogue: "Foreigners call the rocking chair a peculiarly American luxury, yet the necessary length of the rockers on the floor cause[s] this favorite chair to be occasionally in the way, and not infrequently too noisy for comfort. These disadvantages have been very ingeniously overcome in the chairs of certain makers who, in different ways, build them so that t is no rocker on the floor and the movements are always noiseless."... This rocker has been re-upholstered in a beautiful Victorian style and is in good condition. All this rocker needs is someone to sit and rock. This auction sale is final with no returns. Payment can be made by Paypal, certified check, or money order. Shipping costs are the responsibility of the winner of the auction and will be determined later.
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