Head post
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood and metal
Measurements
1778 x 73 x 72 mm; 96 mm (Height); 19 mm (Width)
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937965.1.2
Summary
One of two red-stained, square, tapering head posts with fillets for retaining the headboard and screw holes in the bases in which castors would have been screwed; (.i) incised VIII; (.ii) incised 'V'. Part of the head end of a bedstead.
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).
Marks and inscriptions
V (incised)