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Low-post bed, twin-sized. Maple. One of a pair. Headboard comprised of cut-out scroll ears between turned and carved posts with ball finials. Footboard has similar posts with turned foot rail above mattress level; plain board side rails and secondary foot rail. Metal plate under headboard rail marked "C.B. Swift and Company, 16 Charles St., Boston, Mass."
low-post beds
sleeping and reclining furniture
maple (wood)
Federal
maple (wood)
reproductions
Maple
Federal
Reproduction
BED
Both bedsteads are stamped with parts numbers ""3417"" on headboard rail, etc.; both with metal plate under headboard rail marked ""C.B. Swift and Company, 16 Charles St., Boston, Mass.""
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Probably C. B. Swift and Company (Maker)
Boston, MA, USA
45 1/3 x 39 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.867.2
Massachusetts (United States)
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