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<p>[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 4281476, member: 5066"]Good question and the answer is, I don't know! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/tongue.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":p" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Guesses it is though based on that "Hitch" bracket which appears to be cast iron and it's my understanding that various types of those cast-iron brackets stopped being made around 1917.</p><p><a href="https://www.cathousebeds.com/tag/side-rails/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cathousebeds.com/tag/side-rails/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cathousebeds.com/tag/side-rails/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]343306[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Make that 1914 from the above site</p><p><br /></p><p>"From the days when Lincoln was in office and Billy the Kid roamed the wild west to when two brothers named Wilbur and Orville took to the skies at Kitty Hawk, and when President Woodrow Wilson announced our entry into the 1st World war, iron beds offered people the handmade craftsmanship and quality they had come to expect from their era. In 1914 the United States entered the 1st World War, bringing to a close the production of iron bed framesdue to our countries overwhelming need of all available iron for armaments and the war effort."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="James Conrad, post: 4281476, member: 5066"]Good question and the answer is, I don't know! :p Guesses it is though based on that "Hitch" bracket which appears to be cast iron and it's my understanding that various types of those cast-iron brackets stopped being made around 1917. [URL]https://www.cathousebeds.com/tag/side-rails/[/URL] [ATTACH=full]343306[/ATTACH] Make that 1914 from the above site "From the days when Lincoln was in office and Billy the Kid roamed the wild west to when two brothers named Wilbur and Orville took to the skies at Kitty Hawk, and when President Woodrow Wilson announced our entry into the 1st World war, iron beds offered people the handmade craftsmanship and quality they had come to expect from their era. In 1914 the United States entered the 1st World War, bringing to a close the production of iron bed framesdue to our countries overwhelming need of all available iron for armaments and the war effort."[/QUOTE]
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