My customer has two pieces in need of repair. Both pieces are marked "Charles Harland" inside the seat, a manufacturer which is no longer in business. The first piece is a sectional incliner which has had problems since day one in 1988. It sits about 1/2 inch lower than the other sections, and when a person sits in it, it tends to open up at the wrong time.

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  Overall view of incliner
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  A shot of the label on the underside of the footrest. Notice that the date of purchase is April 1988!
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  Closeup of the motion mechanism, RHS.

The second piece is a leather recliner. There is no label giving the model number as in the first piece. It opens and closes properly, but does not have a return spring to assist the user in returning the seat to its upright position.

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  Overall view of the recliner.
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  Three views of the mechanism. There is no sign of a broken spring, so it's hard to tell where it might attach.

Update: I never did find an exact match for the mechanism on one of the chairs (the sectional), but happily it turned out that I did not need it after all — it was just a matter of a broken screw holding the mechanism to the frame.

Rich Magahiz