18th C Antique Federal Period Birds Eye Maple Rope Bed - Curly Maple Bed

Bay Colony Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this fantastic 18th century antique Birds Eye Maple rope bed. The Maple used for the headboard & footboard has Birds Eye & Curly figuring. It’s rare to find them together, especially so with this knot frequency. We’ve heard every theory as to why the Birds Eye figuring comes to be from pecking birds to fungal infections. There’s still not a concise answer but the one that seems to hold the most water is that these are failed offshoots that developed under unfavorable conditions. The headboard & footboard both have double panel construction with the visible panels on the footboard having a beveled edge. The turning patterns on the posts are very nice and the bed is completely undisturbed with the only alterations being the addition of the iron L brackets. A rope foundation could still be used and the mattress would usually be placed right on top without a box spring. The L brackets drop down a few inches and we’d recomme