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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m often asked……Since you’ve been dealing in antique iron beds for over thirty years, what kind of beds do your daughters have? Well here’s my 15 yr olds bed.
Why should you consider buying an antique iron bed, when there are so many alternative bed frames on the market?
One of the more popular iron bed styles throughout the 1800’s was the “Wedding Ring” design.
So why were iron beds so high off the ground? The old beds and even their wooden counterparts were elevated higher than what we’re use to today because of cold drafts that were close to the ground
As I’ve mentioned in previous postings, the iron beds being made in England back in the 1800’s , were far inferior in their strength, quality and design, in comparison to those iron beds being made in this country at the same time.
What sizes did antique beds come in ? Back in the 1800’s there were only three size beds being used…….Twin’s, which could vary in width sometimes as much as 5″, then there were 3/4 size, that were right around 48″ in width and last but certainly not least was the double/full size at 53′ to…