Oscar & Iron……….
One day a rather small man walked into my store in Los Angeles and started asking me questions about iron beds.
Canopy Transformation………
I’ve yet to find an antique iron bed that didn’t look better after a canopy conversion. The photo of this one shows how even a bed that has soft sloping sides can still be converted. It isn’t necessary the bed has a flat top and corner castings. If you have the foundry facilities and an…
Antique Iron Beds vs Reproductions
It’s very easy to tell the popularity and collectability of an item by the number of reproduction of that item you see in the market place.
Grapes of Wrath Bed
For all of you wine connoisseurs and vineyard owners…….here’s one of the more unique and collectible antique iron beds I”ve come across.
The Best Simmons Bed Ever Made
Few iron beds have the bells and whistles this one does. Made by the E. Simmons Co., that today makes a top line of mattresses. Iron beds of that time were in strong competition with the more expensive brass bed market.
Pendleton Mills Iron Bed Ad
A number of years ago I received a call from a “stylist” who said she was in need of a iron bed for an advertisement in a log cabin setting.
“Finishes” for Your Iron Bed #2: Black Smyth
By far, the most popular antique faux’ finish we put on our iron beds is the Black Smyth.
Iron Bed King Conversion in Laguna Beach CA
Here is a “Before and After” king conversion photo of an iron bed we did for a client in Laguna Beach Ca. It was a bed we’d never seen before. So it must have been made in very limited numbers…..possibly only a few before the foundry decided not to make it any more ……or……it could…
“Finishes” for your Iron Bed #1: Two Tone Crackle
The Two Tone Crackle finish is one that gives you an original finish for your iron bed that was being done by the manufacturer nearly 200 years ago.
Baton Rouge Foundries and the Iron Bed
As you may have learned form some of my earlier blogs, Pittsburgh was the center of steel production in tis country back in the 1800’s.