Towel horse
Category
Furniture
Date
circa 1900 - circa 1949
Materials
Beech
Measurements
97.8 x 76.5 x 38.4 cm
Place of origin
Great Britain
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Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 207101
Summary
A beech towel horse, English, first half of the 20th century. Of two bars between rectangular-section uprights, each on outswept feet, joined by a platform stretcher.
Provenance
Date of acquisition not recorded, but probably acquired by George Bambridge (1892 - 1943) and Elsie Bambridge (1896 - 1976), who purchased a largely empty Wimpole in 1938. The hall and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1976 by Elsie Bambridge.