What size are antique mahogany beds?

Titles use the marketplace's own words. Double appears in 104, king size in 84, single in 57, super king in 13, with 5ft, 6ft and one at 2 metres recorded. Many frames are described as converted or made up to modern mattress sizes, which is how a period bed ends up listed as a king.

Are French mahogany beds common on Sellingantiques?

They are about a fifth of the category, with 94 titles saying French. Empire appears in 25, Louis in 12, brass in 26 and ormolu in 8. The recurring shapes are the bateau lit and corbeille, with panelled or scrolled ends of roughly equal height designed to stand side-on to the wall.

How old is a typical mahogany bed here?

The dated field runs from 1800 to 1960, though only 209 of 417 listings carry a clean year. The weight is around 1900: 71 listings dated to the 1900s, 71 called Edwardian, then 1910s and 1920s. Seventy listings say only 19th Century and 41 say Victorian, labels that cover a full century between them. Just seven fall in the 1800s. Eighteenth-century beds turn up as a handful of posted examples, dated no more precisely than 18th Century.

Why are some listings just a headboard?

Beds get split. Headboards, bed heads and head-foot-and-side-iron sets are listed on their own, and they cluster at the bottom of the range. The same happens with a double bed surround or a bare bed frame. Complete frames, and those listed with a base, sit higher.

Do pairs of single beds come up?

Regularly. Pair appears in 49 titles and single beds in 35, with matching in 9, and several are described as joinable into one wide bed. Edwardian pairs are the recurring version, and pairs sit above comparable singles in the range.

What unusual mahogany beds have sold here?

One-offs turn up. A mahogany dog four-poster, a child's bed, a rattan folding campaign bed and a reclining leather day bed each appear once. So do a marriage bed and a four-poster mounted with porcelain. Day beds, campaign and folding beds together stay under one in ten of the category.