I just spoke with my mother on the phone and she is going to get some more pictures for me so I should get some with the posts visible. I also told her to look around wherever she can to see if there are markings. She also keeps correcting me when I mention Ralph Lauren's "Curtain" Collection and says it is his "Bedding" Collection.
As for written provenance, she says that she had a bill of sale and cannot locate it, but it probably only had this Judy's name on it... so as for the whole Ralph Lauren story, and whether it is true or not, without any proof, it is only just a story. Which is why I told her to locate any markings if she can. She also says that it is not a reproduction.
I asked her again about the previous owner Judy Garwood, and she doesn't know what she is a producer of, but says that she did see her one time on a documentary called "Hauntings In New Orleans" and in this documentary she must have been inside her home because my mother said that when she recognized her, she kept waiting for her to go into her room to see if the bed was in there.
Oh, and the bed was originally in a shop on Magazine St called Hooters and that Judy and the owner had some sort of falling out in which she took back all that she had there on consignment including the bed and ended up somewhere else which is when my mother relocated her and purchased it from her.
I asked her if we could contact the shop where it was located and she said he probably wouldn't be a very helpful because she was trying to purchase it there and when Judy removed it and sold it on her own the owner was furious about it.
