Joel Pratt, Jr.
“The turner Joel Pratt, Jr. (1789-1868), of Sterling, Massachusetts, was producing 8,000 chairs per year at the time of the 1820 census,” according to American Cabinetmakers: Marked American Furniture, 1640-1940 by William C. Ketchum, Jr. “He remained active into the 1840s, making arrow-back side chairs and armchairs, Boston rockers, and half-spindle fancy chairs.”
A printed paper label used by Pratt reads, “Warranted / Chairs / Made And Sold By / Joel Pratt Jun. / Sterling, (Mass.)”