Jacobean Victrola - FB Marketplace, Lansing, MI

[Garret]

Oh absolutely none of my furniture matches--I call my accumulation style "Early American Landfill" and if anyone asks me my favorite interior designer I say my style is closer to that of the Collyer Brothers.

I just recently bought the first bedstead I've owned in 10 years. It is a heavy old Eastlake Victorian double bedstead in black walnut which is funny because all my other Victorian furniture is oak or some cheap wood, and all my other walnut furniture isn't Eastlake (an 1858 cabinet organ and a 1928 Brunswick phonograph.) Jacobean furniture though is just--It looks like it needs to be next to matching furniture in the same pattern, or like it would be making an anachronistic appearance in the background of a Dutch painting.

LOL!

[JerryVan]

I just recently bought the first bedstead I've owned in 10 years. It is a heavy old Eastlake Victorian double bedstead in black walnut ...

Charles,

You may just be the first person the last 10 years to use the term "bedstead". Good for you! (Try asking the sales kid at Ikea where the bedsteads are )

[VanEpsFan1914]

I just recently bought the first bedstead I've owned in 10 years. It is a heavy old Eastlake Victorian double bedstead in black walnut ...

Charles,

You may just be the first person the last 10 years to use the term "bedstead". Good for you! (Try asking the sales kid at Ikea where the bedsteads are )

LMAO -- It isn't a bed until you can sleep in it! Speaking of IKEA I do still have to make the wooden slats for it. Old beds don't need a box-spring, and the springs from the 1800s are pretty lousy anyway with a bad reputation for making noise & stabbing people. (I've had neighbors like that.)
This particular bedstead is about an 1875-1890ish one if I had to guess precisely, looks like the sort of thing you'd lay out a corpse in, and is one of the earliest "standard" mattress sizes which is nice & should save me a lot of time trying to make one from scratch.

I do not usually want a double-bed but it was cheaper to do this than to go to a thrift shop & get a more modern bed with the metal rails.

I am not installing a full Jacobean furniture suite unless I get to wear an embroidered doublet & ruff, grow a Vandyke beard, and sit around in too-tight pants smoking a long clay churchwarden while coming up with oblique insults for literary enemies.

[JerryVan]

I see that the Victrola is no longer listed on FB. Anyone here get it???

[Garret]

The seller was probably overwhelmed with all the queries.