Over the years, I’ve had quite a few people that weren’t crazy about brass on their bed. But back in the 1800’s the manufacturers of iron beds were desperately trying to offer the brass bed market a better, stronger bed, yet still give a touch of the then popular “brass trim”. With brass the public…
Antique iron beds, generally speaking, were feminine in design.
Decorating with antique iron beds has become more and more popular with interior designers throughout Texas.
On Oct.28th, 1886 the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor.
To the untrained eye…..the construction of one iron bed is just as good as another.
In the early to mid-1800’s, the center of steel production in this country, was in Pittsburgh Pa.
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.
Back in the early 1800’s the more affluent people in this country sought out the beauty of shinny brass 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…
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…