Thread: Has anyone seen a 4 leg triumph barbers chair?

Hi, I'm julie, expat living in Spain, my dear friends husband died last month and he was a bit of a collector of everything! And I've been helping his wife clear out and found this chair, we are trying to sell things and would appreciate any suggestion of a price for this, neither of us have a clue! I thought it was a dentist chair for years! We live in rural Spain and would get ripped off at the drop of a hat here with prices, I would dearly like to get the best price, there no hydraulic memechanism, and all the ones I've seen on google are circular stands, this has four legs? Also the bottom seat has broken Ratan and been re covered at some point. I have though of recovering it with a hide skin I have? Would that devalue you it?
Any advice or suggestions on price bracket would be very greatly appreciated?

muchos gracias amigos.

Sorry not going to be much help, this site does not do valuations of any kind, just our rules and it's a good policy for us, it's going to be worth what you can get for it. Good luck. Tc

You could go to ebay and see what similar barbers chairs have sold for a rough idea. I am guessing the price of shipping would be very high on an item like that so there is that to content with. Interesting old chair though. Best of luck to you both.

Bob

Thanks guys, I didn't realise I wasn't allowed to ask valuations etc, I'm sorry, but if anyone can shed light on the four legs? Could it have originally been round and swapped to four leg I have been on eBay looking and Google but can't find a four legged one? And I don't want to go ahead and recover it and devalue it if the four leg is unique or a one off model, if it's pretty worthless then it's worth up cycling it for say london interior designers etc

Not to worry, not the first time someone has asked for evaluations but we try to be as helpful as the rules will allow. I am the last thing from being an expert on barbers chairs, but my bet is that the legs are original. I could be a style once popular in Spain I suppose. My guess is that it may have some uniqueness because of that and the rattan coverings.

I suppose barbers chairs are of interest to collectors, dedicated shavers looking for an addition to their shave den and interior designers looking for something unique and vintage. I think these groups would all have different ideas of what they would want to do with the chair. You might be best off because of that to leave as is and just do a bit of a light clean up without damaging it any further. Letting whomever eventually buys the chair to go in the direction of refurbishing the way they want to.

Bob

I think the barber chairs with four legs are older than the ones with the pedestal base. There are a lot of new age barber shops popping up all over Canada, I have no idea what is happening in Spain, but they are all about the vintage barbershop look and furniture. If the trend is the same there as it is here with a small amount of advertising it should be an easy sell. The few ads I have seen, these are not inexpensive items around here.