Hans Wegner Wishbone Chairs - How do I date these chairs?  

Is the Danish Furniture Control sticker original, or did someone just slap that on there because they felt it was somehow deficient in marking? If it is orginal, it would indicate a no earlier than ____ date. But I've never seen such a thing slapped on a Wishbone chair, and it does not convince as original based on the photos so far.

Out of four chairs, it was the only one with the control sticker. I also thought it was odd...which is why I wanted to provide it in the mix of pics. It could have been placed there after the fact...as the auction house may have put it there. Under the sticker the Carl Hansen marking is very prominent as you can see.

I might be wrong but I believe that the production year of your chairs is clearly indicated: 1964. The HK is the code of the carpenter that made them.

The DFMC sticker looks pretty odd indeed but in 1964 Carl Hansen was a member of the club.

DrPoulet - thanks. I thought the same thing about the numbers, but I've seen numbers on other wishbones that don't connect to when the chairs were created. I've sent Carl Hansen a note.

I think the Danish Furniture Control sticker was not stuck on by the factory. It was probably done by a seller recently who thought the chairs were inadequately marked and peeled that DFC stamp off some other piece.

I've never seen a Carl Hansen chair with a DFC mark like that, and I've looked at the photos of a lot of these marks on wishbone chairs. Also, it does not seem like a DFC sticker the factory would place the sticker over the branded mark like that.