Wow, there's something you don't see turn up on eBay every day. Or ever. A vintage modernist furniture dealer in Bologna, Italy has an original c 1875 Thonet bassinet for sale. He's done a full restoration on it, including the original hardware, and is selling it unfinished. [I imagine/hope the thing was beat to hell and painted purple or something, so we shouldn't mourn the loss of the original finish.]
Anyway, I can't count the number of baby head-sized gaps in this thing, and whatever padding originally went into this is probably now in a History of SIDS exhibit somewhere, but still, pretty damn interesting.
HAHAHA, and for a second there, I thought it said $900 flat rate shipping to the US! Wait... looks like I better add the "illogical amounts of money for furniture" tag.
Original THONET bassinet on eBay, $3,960 Buy It Now or make offer [ebay via stork bites man]
7/5 update: hasn't sold yet, but it's been relisted at the same Buy It Now price.
That is truly lovely. Too bad you could only use it for one of those scary life like dolls old women buy on eBay.