Wicker and leather airplane seat

Image Unavailable, Please Login Anyone have an idea what it's out of?

 

From what I know, it isn't from a Boeing Model 80. Maybe it is from ahold Ford Tri Motor. Certainly not from a 247.

 

Every pic of a Trimotor I've seen has aluminum frame seats with leather covers.

 

I rode in a trimotor back in the early 90s that had its original wicker seats but they didn't look like this.

 

Have you looked under the seat for a manufacturers card. I have an old wicker piece that had one affixed to the frame. You might try and research the history of this company to see if it’s anything of theirs. I just looked through an old catalog no. 7 online and did not see one of a similar style.

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=article&did=WI.SHEBEMIS.I0001&id=WI.SheBemis&isize=M

The Bemis-Riddell Fibre Company

 

Airship seat was my first guess. Here's an interior image from Defender Goodyear. Image Unavailable, Please Login

 

Goodyear airship would make sense- the angle of the backrest would be super uncomfortable on the ground in a taildragger.
This seat came out of northeast Ohio.

 

That's it. The lower portion of the wicker matches the previous photo.

 

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