Vintage Jones Pine Folding Wooden Ladder, 6-steps, Useful and Beautiful!

 

Bursting into the interior design and makeover scene like KABOOM! are vintage wooden step ladders!

Not surprising. Ladders are useful, Everywhere! Practical hangers in your bathroom for towels. Functional in a hall for boots and shoes. Handy in your kitchen for jars and vintage tins. Funky shelving in your living room for books, plants and knick-knacks. Quirky accessory in a toilet for loo-rolls, hand towels and soap.

While we'd recommend these ladders for decorative and ornamental use, to test the strength of this particular beauty, we sent a member of Blackphonevintage (weight: 12 stone) into the garden to go up them. While we watched.

They didn't fall off! Reporting all five steps to the top plate as firm, not wobbling, strong and sturdy.

This pair belonged to Jones, now yours. Gently paint splattered, rubbed down, cleaned, waxed, all hinges checked for security. Marks, scars, wounds and abrasions the result of handling: a lovely record of use, carefully and careless. The top extension on hinges folds down. As does the entire ladder, folding neatly for storage.

Possibly circa 1919 as in the applied maker's mark 'JONES'S PATENT' and inscribed on metal plate 'No. 135683 - 1919'.

Put them upright. Lay them flat. Hang them on a wall on wooden pegs. In retail spaces, shop window displays, your home, our home, anyone's garden. Fantastic. Flexible, fun and funky!

What more can we say? We love 'em.

Measurements
Depth front to back when open 122cm
Height closed 77cm
Height open 55cm
Depth of step 12cm
Top step plus hinged extension 38cm

 £145 Etsy