Side rail
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, canvas and metal
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937925
Summary
Two red-stained bed side rails, each with one bolt hole at both ends (each rail with one bolt missing), and with a short canvas strip tacked to the rebated top inside edge running almost the entire length of the rail, with blue-striped tape underneath the tacks. The main body of canvas is missing from (a) though the tape and tacks remain; (b) has rope holes along the long, loose edge of the canvas with a short length of rope threaded through.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).