Catalogue and price list.
An 1882 trade catalogue and price list issued by the Grand Rapids Furniture Co. of Grand Rapids, Michigan, aimed at furniture dealers and buyers, and devoted to bedsteads. The four pictures are line engravings of bed headboards and footboards with arched, scrolled crests topped by a round medallion, panels with a central roundel, and a cut-away lower rail, showing how American 1880s bedroom furniture was drawn for sales. A designer could draw on their ornate scrolled crests, carved panels and turned posts for period furniture or Victorian decorative motifs.
