Spencer, Samuel (1712-1728)
Spencer, Samuel
‘The Golden Chair’, Aldermanbury, London; chair maker (fl. c. 1712-1728)
The son of a yeoman in Oakley, Hertfordshire, Samuel Spencer began a seven-year London apprenticeship in April 1699, became a freeman in September 1706, and was probably working in Aldermanbury by 1712 when he bound his first apprentice through the Joiners' Company.
The trade card of Samuel Spencer at the Golden Chair in Aldermanbury [MET 47.71.3], c. 1720-25. CCO 1.0 Universal Public Domain https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/382572
Spencer's trade card states that he sold ‘All Sorts of Cain Chairs Couches Round-Stools easy Chairs made Japann'd Cain Sashes for windows’. He may well have been the maker of a set of upholstered seating furniture supplied to Chicheley Hall, Bucks, in July 1722 and other chairs supplied to this house in December 1724 and Holkham Hall, Norfolk, in 1728. The insurance cover of £500 on his goods and merchandise accords rather better with the commissions involved than the £160 maintained by the other possible maker, Henry Spencer.
Source: DEFM.
The original entry from Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840 can be found at British History Online.
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