American Tiger Maple Tall Post Bedstead

Circa 1840, highly figured maple and birch, the headboard with scrolled pediment over two rectangular inset raised birds-eye maple panels, four tall posts with bold turnings above blocks with applied roundels, raised on tapered baluster legs on casters. Later tester frame.


Headboard 87 x 72.5 in., Interior Width 66 in., Interior Length 75 in., Floor to top of rail 25.5 in., Floor to bottom on rail 21.5 in.

From the Estate of the late Mr. & Mrs. Charles and Cynthia Salzhauer, Oxford, North Carolina

Previously deaccessioned from the New Bern Historical Society.


Headboard's far right scroll cut and tipped; overall good condition.

$1,000 - 2,000