In case you ever wondered what a...(Wegner Papa Bear)  

Quite the tease.

If the intended reaction thought was "Gee, I didn't know there were rosewood paws," then I am guilty as charged.

Wegner did not do much in rosewood, and especially not with the Salesco companies. Here is another though:

http://www.lauritz.com/no/auksjon/hans-j-wegner-laenestol-bamsestol-mode...

(Or perhaps it is the same one...)

The paw has definitely been sanded to get down to dark wood like that.

I am guessing the legs are not rosewood?

I was not trying to be smart, i just thought it would be cool and educational to see the underside of one.

They are rare in Rosewood but i have had four of them in the past two years, so they are out there.

I am currently storing one for a friend and noticed that the paw was loose.

It have indeed been sanded down Leif, and quite heavyhandedly as well.

Needs some laquer to be good again.

The legs are almost always beech on these, often stained, or oak when oak paws are fitted, but i see all kind of mixed legs and paws.

There were also several different manufacturers for the Papa Bear but not sure if there was a system/logic to the different woods.

I know of only AP Stolen, who closed down in the late 70s and PP M

I have had examples with both Johannes Hansen and L. Chr. Larsen & S

On PP M

Leif, the JH mark was a metalplate with the Wegner signature.

I got it from the original owners daughter that said it was bought in the late 50's.

But memorys fade quickly so this could of course be wrong and its a later chair.

Regarding the Chr. Larsen chair i think you are correct, that he was only making the chair under contract from perhaps AP stolen.

I have attached a pic of the label.

I don't believe JH was doing the metallic labels with HW signature in the 50's. I'm not sure when that exactly started, but they are mostly associated with 70's and 80's production.

I actually just found a pic of the label.

The "Danish" medallion was next to it so that rules out the 50's i guess.

Interesting. I've never seen a DFC logo and Johannes Hansen mark together. That DFC logo can't date to any later than 1983, and that might be too late a cutoff for it. 1983 is when it became the Danish Furnituremakers' Quality Control at least according to USA trademark filings. There is reason to believe the USA trademark filing could have been a few years after the fact as well. The original DFC logo was not trademarked until 1962, but came into existence in 1959.