100+ Year Old All Wood Fully Restored Flat Top Antique Trunk. Solidly built and tight in a rich even light butternut finish bringing out all of the character and grain of the wood. New burgundy leather handles with original end caps. New burgundy leather straps with original metal and leather tie downs. Plenty of beautiful original hardware in a fantastic patina contrasting with the pine and oak woods with original leather side and center trim! Heavy duty latches with plenty of spring and built-in lid lifts! Original lid guides. Original Leather Side and Center Trim. Original Lift Out Tray. Original lift out tray w/ original custom buttons stamped "BTM, Co" Working Lock AND Key. |
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35"L x 20"D x 22.5"H A 100+ year old antique Flat Top trunk fully restored with all original hardware and liftout tray 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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