End rail
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Oak, softwood, canvas and metal
Measurements
1445 x 82 x 102 mm
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937888
Summary
Plain oak end rail with one bolt hole at each end, rebated top edge with fragments of canvas attached and additional piece of wood fixed to the inside edge, probably softwood, in which to slot a central strengthening beam, possibly when the bed was converted from a canvas to slatted base.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).
Marks and inscriptions
VI; V (incised at each end of the rail)