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Camp Chairs

8/20/2016

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This is a slideshow I'll be working on for a while but these images give a quick look into common types of period correct seating.  Unfortunately, much of the seating seen at reenactments is woefully incorrect for the time period such as wooden folding church or theater seats and the always terrible "mountain man" seat seen below.

For soldiers, the number one seat available was their hat.  The Victorian world did not believe sitting on bare earth to be healthy.  After that, soldiers usually found used ammunition or hardtack crates to sit on.  More common civilian folding stools or chairs or regular dining chairs would pop up only if the army was camped for any length of time.

Some chairs such as the five board bench or the one board bench can be easily made.  Just make sure if you make a bench, that you use cut nails!
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All too common and always incorrect for the time period. Do not buy these!
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5/20/2019 07:41:45 pm

This post really brings me back to the past. I understand that they cannot use fancy furniture. First, because they are in a camp, and second, it's too expensive. What the campers really need tables and chairs that they can actually carry when they decide to look for another place to stay. I have also read some books saying that they are actually using the things around them. In other words, they are being resourceful. Which I definitely understand why because I am also a camper.

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