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1800-1820
GUSN-3107
Square-turned front posts with spool-turned finials and bulbous turned lowers posts joined by rectangular headboard with cut corners and front and side rails; the side rails are hinged and fold just beyond a pair of square slanted legs. Foot posts conform in turnings to head posts and the legs are attached to an additional rail at foot that folds flat when the bed is upright; original blue-green paint.
folding beds
sleeping and reclining furniture
maple (wood)
oak (wood)
painting (coating)
rope
maple (wood)
Maple
Oak
Rope
Painted
BED, FOLDING
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
33.5 x 52 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1604
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