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Approximate finished height: 2.5 inches - 65 mm. Delivery: The items are rolled, tied, and double packed in heavy-weight plastic for freighting, suitable for despatch by courier. Illustrated: Double Overlay in Herringbone with Striped Border, matching White label mattress, and Low-line base.

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The combination of a mattress and base as an ensemble is the ideal sleeping surface, the ultimate: a triple-layered ensemble with mattress overlay.

The overlay became common in France at the end of the nineteenth century, often in combination with the also-new,  upholstered box-spring.
It was highly regarded for its quality as a soft mattress, when compared with the others of the period.
The overlay was seen by visitors to the Great Exhibition of 1851, along with the then-new cotton fabrics including striped ticking, which was particularly produced for use in mattress and box-spring upholstery.
Consisting of a core of curled hair enclosed in layers of white wool, the French overlay was hand filled in a bordered ticking case and deep buttoned.

Similarly, the real beds overlay-topper has a latex rubber core enclosed in multiple layers of wool, hand filled in a bordered case and deep buttoned.
The real wool and latex overlay provides a luxuriously soft sleeping surface, and has proved an excellent addition for maturing clients who are finding their current mattress now too firm.

The three-part overlay, innerspring mattress, and upholstered box-spring were combined in the Spring-Air Mattress by the The Master Bedding Makers of America in 1935, see below

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Spring-Air Mattress by The Master Bedding Makers of America. Holland, Michagan. - National Geographic, May 1935.

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