Side rail
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak, softwood, wood and metal
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937885
Summary
Pair of oak side rails, each with shaped underside, rebated top edge to which canvas would once have been tacked, and additional length of wood, softwood, to alter the use from canvas to slat-based bed. Also with black-painted metal legs on the end of which are wooden wheels. There are two bolts and bolt holes at one end of each rail and one bolt and bolt hole at the other end.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).