ANTIQUE Primitive Early Wood ROPE BED KEY TOOL (from ENGLAND) ~ 1800’s

ANTIQUE Primitive Early Wood ROPE BED KEY TOOL (from ENGLAND) ~ 1800’s (image 1/4)
ANTIQUE Primitive Early Wood ROPE BED KEY TOOL (from ENGLAND) ~ 1800’s (image 2/4)
ANTIQUE Primitive Early Wood ROPE BED KEY TOOL (from ENGLAND) ~ 1800’s (image 3/4)
ANTIQUE Primitive Early Wood ROPE BED KEY TOOL (from ENGLAND) ~ 1800’s (image 4/4)
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This tightening rope bed key/wrench tool is handmade of a heavy solid wood. The stock is 12-3/4” long and the handle is 12.5” wide.Rope beds were used from Colonial Times until the mid 1800’s. They were not by any means secure - long tenons on the rails were fitted into deep mortises in the posts and the ropes were laced across the bed frame to support the mattress. All was well until the rope stretched and slackened and then the entire bed became wobbly until the rope was retightened by a tightening key or wrench. The expression “sleep tight” originated with these rope.This particular bed tightening tool was brought here from England by my husband’s late wife who was born there.
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