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I have no idea what make they are, but if they're in excellent condition and with a really good add (several pictures, accurate dimensions, willing to ship nationwide) I'd be willing to bet that he could easily get $500 for the pair on eBay!

I can solve your problem. Just ship them to my house...

I don't know anything about them either, but they have great lines and seem to be in good condition. Please don't throw them away.

Very nice and a little different detail with the arms. I would keep them.

victoria- if these are in chicago area and you are interested in selling, i am very interested!

that chair is lovely!

I spend a LOT of time on MCM sites and eBay. I would say they look like Dux, but could be another maker. Regardless, I see chairs like this in good condition selling for around $250 each, possibly a bit more.

They're lovely IMO.

I would keep them. They look great.
I should know. I have been scouring the web for reasonably priced mid century arm chairs for a few weeks now, and these seem better than most I have come across.

OH MY GOSH, we have EXACTLY the same chair, only ours is teal!!

It was made by Kroehler, a furniture company based out of the Chicago area. Here's a cut-and-paste from the encyclopedia of Chicago history:

"In 1902, Peter E. Kroehler bought the Naper ville Lounge Co., a maker of wooden lounge chairs and upholstered furniture. Kroehler built a new factory in Naperville in 1913 after the original facility was destroyed by a tornado. Soon thereafter, he renamed the company Kroehler Manufacturing Co. This enterprise soon operated across the country and employed several hundred men and women in the Chicago area. By the middle of the 1940s, with over $20 million in annual sales, Kroehler was the second-largest furniture maker in the United States. During the 1960s, when the company employed close to 8,000 people around the country, annual revenues passed $100 million. The company struggled during the 1970s, closing its historic Naperville factory in 1978 and ending its operations in the area. In 1981 Kroehler was acquired by the ATR Group of Northbrook, which put the com- pany up for sale. By the early 2000s, furniture was still manufactured under the Kroehler name by two unrelated companies, one in North Carolina and the other in Ontario, Canada."

I have no idea if Kroehler furniture is particularly valuable...

Our chair came from my grandmother, who apparently purchased it from a catalog with stamps she got from buying groceries (I think she calls them "green stamps"?).

"Our chair came from my grandmother, who apparently purchased it from a catalog with stamps she got from buying groceries (I think she calls them "green stamps"?)."

S&H Green Stamps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S&H_Green_Stamps

http://www.greenpoints.com/account/act_default.asp

Does it make me old that I remember those stamps?

I loved collecting them. It was like a little (green) piece of hope - for new dinnerware!

Definitely save or sell then. I'd say they're worth at LEAST $250 each, and likely more, especially in a market like Chicago.

Why on earth would you scrap those?

I'd say more like $170 each tops. No offense... but these are mass produced American. The $250-300 is for rarer lower production Danish mid-century items. These are mass produced and not by any particular designer.

They are nonetheless lovely. Keepers for sure, but you aren't going to find any takers at $250 each.