Victorian Antebellum Plantation Poster Tester Bed, 1850

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This Mid 19th Century British Colonial Tester Bed came from The Great House of Lacovia Estate, an old Sugar Plantation in the Island of Jamaica. It was made in 1850 as a Wedding Present for William James Tomlinson (1825-1909), a young Scotsman who was the Manager and later Owner of Lacovia Estate. He managed Lacovia Estate, Holland Estate and other sugar plantations in Jamaica for Sir John Gladstone, 1st Baronet, (1764-1851), Liverpool Merchant and Member of Parliament, and later for his son, the Rt. Hon. William Ewart Gladstone, (1809-1898), who was Prime Minister of England during the reign of Queen Victoria. In the 1880s William James Tomlinson purchased Lacovia Estate from the Gladstone family in England and the 3,000 acre Sugar Plantation remained in the possession of his descendants until the 1970s. William James Tomlinson's Plantation Bed, originally made in Jamaica in 1850, is now owned by his Great-Great-Grandaughter, an elderly 83 year old Lady, who now wishes to sell it. This Jamaican Plantation Tetser Bed was hand-carved from solid Jamaican Mahogany by the Ex-Slaves working on the Lacovia Estate and it retains all of its original fittings including the canopy frame, curtain rods, curtain rings, bed boards and bolt-hole covers, all made from Mahogany, and even the original heavy iron bolts hand-forged by the Blacksmith read more

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