What is a Tester? It is Large and very heavy and you can only buy them these days as a custom build.
I suppose logically there'd be Tester Testers if they were mass produced?

And they are as big as a half-tester, too, though not usually lighter

You can still buy them in auctions.I have one upstairs now.

My grandma had one

For the Confused a Tester is a Solid wood Bedhead/bedend ...Only modern examples are on 4 poster beds. Very expensive!
www.fourposterbed.co.uk/bigpics_files/beds/halftester.htm

Fred & dg.If they modernised the design I think they'd now look like a garden shed with no sides.Would you agree?

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Originally posted by bedstor:

Fred & dg.If they modernised the design I think they'd now look like a garden shed with no sides.Would you agree?

Shed? Well,you could keep tools in mine: it has a cupboard built at the top of the bedhead. That's to keep the chamber sticks, and the candles to go in them. It is a C17 tester in oak, that is a 'four poster' with a solid oak 'roof' completely covering it. The whole thing is held together with wooden dowels (or, rather, was because in use I replaced them with coach-bolts . I wasn't quite as trusting as to sleep under a solid oak roof held up only by wooden pegs!)

You wouldn't want to move house often if you had one like that.It takes a while to dismantle and re-erect but its worst feature is that it takes four men to carry the roof and two each for the headboard and foot board.They don't find this agreeable

It came with the provenance information at auction that 'Winston Churchill and Barnes Wallis, inventor of the bouncing bomb, both slept in this bed in World War II'.That must have been one heck of an air raid Thinking of some yet undiscovered scandal about Churchill's private life, I was disappointed to find that the bed had been in an hotel in WW2 and the two men had not been in the bed together