antique american civil war victorian patriotic bedroom set meeks belter ca 1865

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antique american civil war victorian patriotic bedroom set meeks belter ca 1865:
$1200.00

very very fine and rare american victorian patriotic civil war era bedroom set ca 1861 to 1865 , made by either J&J meeks or john henry belter not sure , the bedroom set is magnificent , first itemis a high back rococo styledouble / full sizebed with magnificent carvings of doves of peace or love birds, the birds are hand carved in high relief over a birds nestalso there is all hand carved flowers and grapes, just beautiful !the wings of the birds need to be reattached but areall there no loss , just great , the bed has beautiful side rails and foot board also withhand carved with grape leafs i believe ,the bed also has original large wooden rollers , the second piece to this set is a mirror with a hand carved shield with the word liberty , motif of the americanstars and stripes surrounded withlaurelleafs ,i have never seen this on a piece of american furniture of the period , very very rare , the mirror has glove boxes , needs some restoration , mirror has a small ding out ofglass, also the chest that went with this mirror is gone , but it would be easy to finda chestto match , measurements are ,height of bed 65 inches ,width of bed 59 1/2 inches , length of bed 70 inches ,width for mattress and box springs opening 56 inches by 68 inches and mirror is 52 inches high and 42 inches long at base of glove boxes ,the footboard is 21 inches tall .this bed is for a double mattress or full size mattress, again this is one of the most important piece of american furniture i have ever owned , with some restoration this will be a very very valuable set of civil war era suite of furniture , if you have any questions please feel free to ask , all items sold as is , set may be picked up or will arrange shipping with local shipper , again this is a very rare set , should really be in a fine home or collection ,should be in a museum it is that rare ,thanks and good luck !!!

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