Main features of note are the wonderful symmetry of the serpentine, cathedral arched gates, ones featuring classic hockey sticks to the lower footboards. When made up with bedding and a well-executed drapery scheme, they will simply be world-class in the authenticity, character, and history they are able to bring to one’s bedroom scheme. Still standing in the most superb original condition adds greatly to these bedsteads’ overall appeal. The golden treacle color to the brass comes courtesy of the Victorians’ Lumanoid lacquered finish; one that utilized a sepia-colored lacquer.
This toned lacquer effect helped tie the different colors of brass mounts to one uniform tone. The brass mounts would have varied in color due to the differing processes used to make them. Some were spun from brass discs, some turned from solid, and others fittings cast and then cleaned up via a lathe. The smaller tubes have sheet brass foil rolled onto them, and the main posts are solid wall extruded brass. As such, and due to the differing metallurgy of the brasses used to create them, once polished they varied in the tone of their brass color, thus the sepia lacquer masked this. It also made allowance for the fact that slower Victorian polishing wheel speeds could not achieve such a high shine as the electrically powered ones we use today. Again, this lower shine was improved by the darker-colored, but still clear, Lumanoid lacquer.
These bedsteads’ makers, Edward and Richard Peyton, were both friends and peers of Robert Winfield. Courtesy of Winfield’s generous nature, much of Peyton’s product capability matched his firm’s mastery in cast brass detail and ormolu finish. The Peytons, however, plowed their own furrow structurally and an example of this is these bedsteads have unique lead-filled joints, exclusive to their firm. Made circa 1850, restoration work will be light and subtle; thus very much to these bedsteads’ best commercial interest.
Finish / Finishes:
All Brass Mounts: This bedstead will have a deep clean and we do not plan to re-polish it due to its wonderfully, mellow ‘treacle lustre’ which comes courtesy of an original Victorian polished and lacquered finish. This tone and colour cannot be achieved today and is facilitated only by a combination of the passage of time and the superlative workmanship of our Victorian forebear’s
Lumanoid brass lacquering process.
All Iron Work (side iron etc): The original paint of the side irons, cross irons and post chills will be deep cleaned, revived and waxed
courtesy of Bed Bazaar’s exclusive workshop methodology and skill set.
Dimensions:
Standard UK Single Size to suit a 90 x 190 / 198cm (3’0” x 6’3”)
Footboard Height: 107cm / 3‘6“
Headboard Height: 137cm / 4‘6“
Mattress-to-Floor Height: 60cm / 2‘0“
Mattress & Base Depth: 30cm / 12“
Bedstead Base-to-Floor: 35cm / 14“
Side Rail-to-Floor: 30cm / 12“
