KLO

I don't know if you got a good deal but you are a good person for doing what you did! I have my grandmother's little rocker that looks very similar to the one you show except that the top horizontal rail is straight, not curved and the front legs are lathe turned so the chair is more "country" than elegantly formal. I think these chairs might have been called sewing chairs but I could be very wrong. (edited: Just googled "sewing rocker" and yes, that appears to be what they are. They are sometimes refered to as nursing chairs too!) And yes, mine did originally have a caned seat. In fact, I think that is why that groove goes around the seat hole. It's where the cane spline gets hammered in to keep the seat in tension so to speak once the already woven cane is laid out as a whole piece on the seat. Back on topic, what a great job you did on that machine! Well worth it to bring another one back to life instead of it ending up in the dump!