Animal Head Castings
Antique iron beds, generally speaking, were feminine in design.
Decorating with Antique Beds Texas Style
Decorating with antique iron beds has become more and more popular with interior designers throughout Texas.
Metal Beds Influenced by Statue of Liberty
On Oct.28th, 1886 the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor.
American Made Beds vs British Made
To the untrained eye…..the construction of one iron bed is just as good as another.
Origin of Metal Beds
In the early to mid-1800’s, the center of steel production in this country, was in Pittsburgh Pa.
Castings Chills
The quality of an iron bed is most often determined by the quality of it’s castings or “Chills” as they were called back n the 1800’s.
Metal Beds vs All Brass Beds
Back in the early 1800’s the more affluent people in this country sought out the beauty of shinny brass beds.
British Canopy Beds
They are unmistakable. Their construction is very standardized. Yet the metal beds being made in England in the 1800’s all have the same problem …… instability. Why? Because there are way too many connecting points, where iron tubing is joined to brass tubing or iron rods are connected to iron tubingand those connections are problematic…
What Makes One Bed More Valuable Than Another?
There are a number of things that make one antique bed more valuable than another. The first thing: is the size of the tubing. To be more specific, the size tubing going across the top of the bed. Nearly 85% of all the iron beds that were made back in the 1800’s had 1″ thick…
What Determines a Beds Value ?
So you’re hunting for a bed….. not a “replica” or “reproduction”, and you want to know where to start. You should first know that there is no comparability between an authentic old antique iron bed and a reproduction. They are constructed very differently, the reproduction being produced with aluminum castings and thin wall tubing and the original…