Featured Old Bed from Estate

Hello everyone,

First post. Cool site!
So, I'm at an estate sale just north of the TN/KY border and bought an old bed. Was told it's a double or double 3/4 and from 1810'ish. I cleaned it up with Murphy's and water and it looks classy/throwback to me. Smells great. Don't know what wood it is.
At the same sale, there was lots of nice stuff and this bed was pulled from a c. 1840 abandoned brick house. Does anyone recognize this style or know anything about what it could be? The wheels are made from wood. 3 casters are the same, 1 odd one out.
Thanks

 

Welcome!

 

Hang on for Brad.

 

Thank you Sir! I like this site. It's great to know others like things like this too. Cheers

 

At this same sale, I (speculate) "swear" that there was a Frank Lloyd Wright dinner table, or inspired as such. It would comfortably seat 10 unextended, and 16 extended. Didn't take any photos, but it had a mechanism to where the top lifted up to extend the leaves outward from underneath and would be lowered to be flush with these extensions. Anyone ever heard about such a thing? It came South from in Manhattan, NY around 1920.

 

it was a really really cool table

 

if I had 1250 to spend, I'd have bought it on site.

 

Did it rotate as it did this?

 

I'm not sure I understand. It was not on wheels. The top lifted straight up about an inch so the extensions could slide out to each end. No leaves in the middle.
Does that answer the question?

 

Found photos of it.

Photos posted for educational / critiquing purposes.

 

it had 5 legs as well


Photos posted for educational / critiquing purposes.

 

There is a design that rotates open to extend it.
It's round.

 

That would be cool!!!

 

Not recalling who made them.

 

Circa 1880 late Renaissance Revival "cottage" style bed. Looks like cherry or birch stained to mimic mahogany. The cottage style is a vernacular Victorian style that doesn't get much written about it. It was not the high style for the day but, rather, furniture made for the masses of lesser woods in smaller shops. It incorporated some of the style aspects of its pricier cousins but is generally simpler and often came painted originally. I don't think your piece was ever painted and it is a bit fancier than some.

In searching antique cottage style bed, I find very little that is of the style. Cottage has become such a decorating buzz-word that the search is inundated with modern furniture and painted stuff to fit a look. Many wouldn't know cottage furniture if it was standing before them. That said, searching antique spindle bed did produce some examples..... Many do not have descriptions that really fit so you might also search Jenny Lind or spool beds which are different but maybe related styles.

 

Yes Sir. Thank you for your input. It makes sense, considering where it came from.

I had actually done a search for "antique turned spindle bed" and Jenny Lind was the closest thing visually that came up. The major difference being that the Jenny Lind had a turned upper rail on the footboard area.

Learn something new everyday! Tomorrow, here I come. Off to bed for today. Cheers Sir. Thanks.

 

While you may be a southern gentleman....if you keep calling every one here Sir.....we're gonna start feelin old ...real fast !!

 

Looks like it's time for a little lesson in "Southern (USA) ingrained courtesies of speech."

The addressing of one as "sir" when thanking one for help has much more to do with the "helpfulness" of a person sharing an "answer to a question" than it has to do with the "age" of the person giving the help.

I "out-age" Gatortail by decades but . . . if I walked into a store and he (at his younger age than my age) was working in that store I would address him as "sir" when I asked if he could help me find such and so in the store's inventory. He'd get yet another "sir" addressed to him in my "thank-you" for helping me find such and such in that store. The same would go for using the word "ma'am" to address a woman of any age (younger or older than I am) if she is being helpful.

 

Well now, I'm mighty grateful for that cultural lesson there Ma'am !
Aww shucks, now I'm feelin lower than a snakes belly in a tire rut ....but seein as how you've bin so kind as to show me the light.....I'm a gonna ree turn the favor.

Us'n that lives upwards o' your northern border , well now , we has a special like'n towards make'n folks feel welcome here abouts by throwin a whole darn mess o' humor in their direction, and that's purdy much what I was aim'n at.

So ya need'nt all worry a boot them there in bread interflections, cuz it's all in fun around these parts !

 

Gator.....you're as welcome here as a good ol boy at a moonshine taste'n !!