Description:
Folding bedstead with trestle feet, painted red (with ticking), pencil posts and bracket canopy, rare or perhaps unique trestle foot. Sometimes this bed is called a slaw or turn-up bed. According to Dean Fales, "made of birch and pine in the Connecticut River Valley between 1740 and 1800. Painted red - it has unusual trestle feet. In 1796, the house joiners and cabinetmakers of Hampshire County (in which Deerfield was located) charged four dollars for a bedstead 'to turn against the wall' in a price list issed at Hatfield (see Fales, Furniture of Historic Deerfield, 1976, p. 286).

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