110+ Year Old All Wood Fully Restored Flat Top "Low Profile" Antique Trunk. Solidly Built and Tight in a rich even butternut yellow/reddish/brown finish. New leather handles and end caps. Plenty of beautiful original gold brass gilted hardware contrasting with the pine and oak woods and leather trim all over! Heavy duty latches with plenty of spring and built-in lid lifts! Original leather trimming and metal tie downs. Original lift out tray with new bottom. Working Lock AND Key. |
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35"L x 21"D x 13"H A 110+ year old antique Low Profile trunk fully restored in a rich brown butternut finish with lots of character to both wood and polished hardware. Great as a military or navy retirement gift or shadowbox! This is one good looking trunk! |
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Custom Designed, Handcrafted, and Hand Lettered in Caligraphy on your Antique Chest |
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Customer Photographic Examples of our Antique Trunks Being used as a Military or Naval Retirement Shadow Box and Storage Chest!! |
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Note the Flatop and Two Monitor or Waterfall Trunks, Each Being Individually Unique at the Very Time of Production. |
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We all romanticize about the mystique of these antique trunks. The possible owners and travels that each steamer trunk has taken, along with the high level of detailed craftsmanship in the original production of each and every steamer trunk with that individualized character giving both intrinsic and non-intrinsic value. |
It was a common practice that loyal and productive craftsmen would be allowed to bring their children to work with them to learn a craft, so many of the children in this photograph were more than likely sons of the men shown. |
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