Hunzinger Platform Rocker with "circles"?

Ok. I don't mean to flood this site with platform rockers, but here is another interesting one.  It has a fairly common spindle design, but is accompanied by strange little posts with circular wooden ornamentation.  In addition, it has a great shot of the paper patent mark that was included on many of the later chairs.  As that paper is now well over 100 years old, you have to give a lot of credit to whomever was mixing the glue!

Hunzinger Rocker

Platform Lollipop Rocker

This one is listing on eBay for $2500. Very nice...

Rocker

This platform rocker is listing for $3000 on eBay. Wow. I''ll try to check and see what it ends up going for. Beautiful piece.

This platform rocker is listing for $3000 on eBay. Wow. I''ll try to check and see what it ends up going for. Beautiful piece.

Oak Hunzinger Rocker

This one being listed on eBay for $350.

Hunzinger Rocker

Patented Hunzinger Rocker




(thanks to John @ Rare Victorian for sending this my way.)

More and More Hunzinger Rockers

Very sweet Hunzinger platform rocker with patented spring system. It's good that the finish looks great on it, because it would be a nightmare to re-finish. Probably 60 hours to do it right. I'm not keen on the red upholstery, but that could be replaced without too much trouble.

Hunzinger Platform Rocker

Hunzinger Platform Rocker

Hunzinger Lollipop Platform Rocker

Typical Knock-Off Hunzingerish Rocker

This is pretty much your standard spring rocker mis-attributed to Hunzinger.

Lollipop Hunzinger Rocker

I'm not a huge fan of the lollipops, but this rocker is pretty nice. Check out the twisted spindles in the front - from personal experience, each of those takes like 5 hours to remove paint from. Another observation - the horizontal reinforcement bar through the back spindles. I don't recall seeing one like this before.
Thx Christa for sending it my way!

Hunzinger Platform Rocker

Hunzinger's platform rockers are my favorite design. The spring mechanism used creates a rocking motion different from other chairs. The design is quite comfortable and they just look really great in your house. This one on sale at eBay is fantastic. Note the great shot of the duplex spring and the patent sticker. The two rockers we have came with the sticker as opposed to an imprint stamp. I don't have information as to when the company started using stickers on the pieces.

Hunzinger Lollipop Platform Rocker

This is an absolutely wonderful piece. The first platform duplex-spring rocker in the lollipop style that I have seen. Absolutely marvelous.

Hunzinger Platform Rocker

This one is very nice. It has the twisted spindles like the Hunzinger my wife has and a leather upholstery like the one I have. I like it!

Hunzinger Platform Rocker

Nice one with paper patent sticker.


Great shot of the patented duplex spring system - BTW, best rocking action on a chair. Bottom line.

This is a shot of a paper stamp. I am not sure when Hunzinger or his sons began using these. Both Hunzingers we own had the paper stamps.

Insane Awesome Hunzinger for Sale

I got my FeedBlitz subscription to the Rare Victorian website with this gem in it. It is a patented duplex-spring rocker with embossed leather uphostery. You can find out how to purchase it by visiting the post at the Rare Victorian.

Third Place

Christa notified me that I had been seriously slacking on my blogs lately. I enquired as to exactly how much blogging one had to do in order to be considered a slacker. She answered simply... "you have slipped to third place" What? Evidently at one time in the recent past, typing in the word Hunzinger in a Google search pulled my blog as the number one site... well, now I have slipped to third behind some construction company named Hunzinger and behind another furniture blogger: Rare Victorian. Although I can't begrudge either of them, especially John at the RareVic, for taking my spot, I will have to kick it up a notch to bring up my hit ranking. So here we go!

Check out this fine Hunzinger piece Christa sent me last night. Platform rocker with patented duplex spring system. The finish looks original. The carvings in the back are quite cool. Finally, it has a stamped pattent mark as opposed to a paper lable. I'm considering purchasing it, but If I don't I'll share the link to the sale page! :)