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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ghopper1924, post: 938706, member: 5170&quot;]Gorgeous Renaissance Revival walnut bed. Ca. 1880, or even a bit earlier, is about right. Nice purchase!</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m inclined to read this as D&nbsp;&nbsp; IX, as in D 9, since the D seems to be one &quot;font&quot; and the IX another. Unfortunately, that doesn&#039;t really tell us anything either. I&#039;m tending toward these marks being an internal reference or inventory number, which would only mean something to the company that made the bed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Right off the bat I can&#039;t think of any of the big players from that time period that began with &quot;D,&quot; but there were many dozens or even hundreds of furniture makers in the late 19th century, most of them lost in obscurity now. </p><p><br /></p><p>One crucial part of the puzzle: Where are you located? Is it the same place where the bed came from?</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if you never find out exactly who made it, I think its fairly safe to suppose that it was made by one of the better companies in the midwestern U.S. in one of the northern furniture making states during the 1870s and 1880s, i.e. Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not sure how much you paid, but if you refinish the bed in a very sensitive, careful manner it may very well come out looking better. It&#039;s only furniture above a certain high price that needs to keep its original finish to keep its value, and it&#039;s certainly no insult to the bed to say that it&#039;s probably below that price point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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