End rail
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Pine and metal
Measurements
62 mm (Width) x 83 mm (Depth); 890 mm (Length)
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937877.2.2
Summary
One of two plain, red-stained pine end rails with rebated inside edge to which there would have been a canvas mattress support tacked; part of an incomplete four-poster bedstead. This end rail is incised 'III' and 'IIII' at either end.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).