There is an interesting story behind the making of the #476 Arm Chair. The original Flemish Arm Chair which inspired this reproduction was made circa 1690-1700 and is in the Wallace Nutting Collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. It is also illustrated in Wallace Nutting's Furniture Treasury, volume Two, plate 1985.

Wallace Nutting illustrated a touched up version of this very same photograph in his 1930 Supreme Edition General Catalog. Identified as "#476 Flemish". It was available in maple and for an additional charge the caning could be replaced with a carved panel. Wallace Nutting was known to 'improve' on designs if he believed his design was more functional.

In 1932 Perry, Shaw and Hepburn, an architectural firm from Boston, Massachusetts, was hired to oversee the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. They contracted with Wallace Nutting to provide twenty-four Flemish Arm Chairs as illustrated in plate 1985 of Furniture Treasury. Wallace Nutting submitted a sample chair somewhat like the #476 Flemish which was rejected because the carvings differed from the original. After some misunderstandings and delays a design was approved with changes restoring the turnings and carvings closer to the original. The #476 chair that was approved can be seen in Nutting's 1937 Final Edition furniture catalog advertised as the "476 Williamsburg Restoration Chair". For additional reading the Wallace Nutting Collectors Club printed a very informative article on the connection between Wallace Nutting's #476 chair and Colonial Williamsburg in its April, 1999, newsletter.