Side rail
Category
Furniture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Wood, metal, canvas and textile
Collection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 937990
Summary
Pair of wood side rails to a bed, each with a short strip of blue-striped canvas with rope holes around the edges tacked almost along the entire length of the rail, to a rebated top inside edge. There is a bolt hole at both ends; both ends of (a) are incised 'IIII' and 'I'; (b) is incised 'III' at one end
Provenance
Stamford collection; devised to the National Trust by Roger Grey, 10th Earl of Stamford (1896-1976).