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.
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.
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…
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.
Iron Beds & The South – Cathouse Iron Beds Origin, Continued
As you may have read in my 2nd Blog entitled Origins of Cathouse Antique Iron Beds, the first iron beds I ever had, came in to my possession from a couple of farmers up in Pennsylvania.
The Ying & Yang of Iron Beds
It was a strange thing that some designers of iron beds did back in the early 1800’s when selecting a certain theme for their iron beds.
Making an Old Iron Bed Look Old
For many years people that went out and bought antique iron beds, felt as though they should completely refinish them so they looked brand new.
Iron Beds……..One of the Best for “Green Decorating”
In an age when decorating with “green” intentions has become so important to our environment and future generations, what better way to go green and recycle than to use original antiques that were made back in the 1800’s and have no impact on our environment because their production “footprint” is non-existent today. Iron beds are…
“British Cylinder Bed”…….
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.