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Green painted doll's pencil-post bed, the four posts are tapered and chamfered at the tops with a shaped headboard. The side rails are pierced with holes for rope-ties of string creating a grid support for a doll's mattress; painted pine green overall.
miniatures (toys)
beds (furniture)
painting (coating)
string (fiber product)
wood (plant material)
Wood
String
Painted
Bed
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
11 1/2 x 10 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1178
Title Doll's Blanket Accession Number 1991.1265
Title "Penny Wooden" Doll Accession Number 1991.1266
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