![]() To answer any and all questions you might have about antique iron beds. I hope you’ve found this blog informative. That way if the springs aren’t aligned properly……your box spring and mattress won’t have a chance to start creating those lumps we all hate. It’s because of this that mattress dealers say you should turn and flip your mattress every few months. And if they don’t line up, the springs in the mattress will start bending in an odd direction instead of straight up and down and divuts and lumps will start forming in your mattress. If it isn’t, the spring count and placement will not line up. One thing to keep in mind when using a box spring ……… always make sure it was the oe that was specifically made for the mattress that’s on top of it. All the better box springs are stuffed with dense cotton for the noise factor and to give a much more universal displacement of any weight that is put on top of it. It is sewn tightly around the unit that was constructed with a wooden framework for strength and rigidity. There is a thick damask material that surrounds the sides, top and bottom. And the other is the same reason in the old days they were called “spring units” and today they are called “box springs”……….because today the entire spring unit is encased in what appears to be a box. One of the two things that distinguishes an old spring unit from a modern box spring is the padding and stuffing that goes into and all around the springs in a box spring. ![]() The also have to be individually wrapped and tied, for strength. But here’s where it gets tricky with today’s new box springs…….the coils have to be tight and made of thick gauge spring wire. Today’s “box springs” come in a wide variety of quality and construction. Also because the coils were very wide apart, they didn’t hold up weight well at all. With so many connecting points of iron spring against more metal springs and metal wire, the noise factor was difficult at best. Except today’s box springs have a distinct difference from those early models in the 1800’s. The theory was if you through more springs into a “bed spring” unit, you’d achieve more comfort. They were then connected to the other coils by long slim metal springs. The metal coils were placed on thin metal straps that were held in place by thick wire. The old metal spring units had a number of technical draw backs, not to mention ed the “rythm band” effect when the bed was being used for something other than sleep. But no one wanted them when they did buy the iron beds from me. Va, Ohio, and New York beseeched me to please take the spring unit that came with the bed frame. Is it because they are so rare and difficult to come by? Hardly….When I started in the business those people wanting to sell me beds, throughout the backwoods and far reaches of Pennsylvania, W. In that period of time, I have never bought or sold an old original spring unit. While there has been talk of repealing the law, it remains on the books.For 40 years I have been dealing in antique iron beds. incapable of having and exercising proper control". * The 1962 Maori Community Development Act has been described as "New Zealand's most racist law" and allows Maori wardens to order bars to stop serving "drunk and quarrelsome" Maori. It also makes it illegal to serve alcohol at a gathering of Maori without a permit, while the wardens can take the car keys of any Maori who "by reason of physical or mental condition. * in 2015 a Hamilton Pak 'n Save store pulled "Happy golly" - modern versions of Golliwog dolls - from its shelves. Race Relations Commissioner Dame Susan Devoy said: "Golliwogs aren't harmless toys, they were born out of racism and represent an era that is best left in the past.". Two copies available at Wellington Library, which describes the book as: "A little boy loses his fine new clothes to the tigers, but while they dispute who is the grandest tiger in the jungle he takes his fine clothes back again." * Children's book The Story of Little Black Sambo, by Scottish author Helen Bannerman, was first published in 1899. The Human Rights Commission, where Dame Susan Devoy is race relations commissioner, did not return calls on Friday. Boy Money Box" saying the term was "offensive, racist pejorative". In 2014, the Advertising Standards Authority upheld about a Trade Me listing for an antique "awesome Early NZ Greedy N. One found online from 1882 was called the "jolly n. bank" and had the name cast into it, while one on YouTube described the "greedy n. boy" money bank as a " racist toy made in New Zealand in 1930s". ![]() In about the 1950s, a Christchurch company started making New Zealand equivalents, though these were of lesser quality and smaller than the American originals. There was an equivalent "negress" one also made. The Story of Little Black Sambo can still be withdrawn at Wellington Library.
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