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HUGE and SUBSTANTIAL - 110+ Year Old Fully Restored All Wood Flat Top Antique Trunk w/ a Dark Patina to the Chestnut and Oak Wood Body with Black Japanned Hardware Featured on all Edges and Corners! There is No Doubt this is a Masculine Trunk. Heavy Duty Front Latches with Built-in Lid Lifts, Right Latch Has Slight Loss of Tension But Does Not Detract. This is an Imposing Flat Top Weighing over 60lbs! The All Wood Body with Triple Layer Construction with the Exterior Surface Being an American Chestnut Providing Lots of Character. Complex Cast Iron End Caps in a Fantastic Design with Built-in Lid Guides are Also Integral to the Securing of the Oak Straps. This Complexity Prohibited their Removal to Install New Leather Handles and Would Have Resulted in Marring or Damaging the Workmanship. . Working Lock AND Key! - #393

Exterior originally covered in a thick green painted canvas which was removed. The interior originally covered in a thin protective paper which was also removed during restoration. Removing the coverings revealed the beautiful patina which only 100+ year old seasoned pine and oak woods can achieve! All hardware was cleaned, lightly sanded and polished. The exterior and interior woods and hardware were scrubbed and lightly sanded with a high gloss varnish applied to all surfaces. All edge sheeting, hardware clamps, front latches, lid banding, and hinges were lightly polished.
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Flat Top Antique Trunk - #393
HUGE and SUBSTANTIAL - 110+ Year Old Fully Restored All Wood Flat Top Antique Trunk w/ a Dark Patina to the Chestnut and Oak Wood Body with Black Japanned Hardware Featured on all Edges and Corners! There is No Doubt this is a Masculine Trunk. Heavy Duty Front Latches with Built-in Lid Lifts, Right Latch Has Slight Loss of Tension But Does Not Detract. This is an Imposing Flat Top Weighing over 60lbs! The All Wood Body with Triple Layer Wood Construction with the Exterior Surface Being an American Chestnut Providing Lots of Character. Complex Cast Iron End Caps in a Fantastic Design with Built-in Lid Guides are Also Integral to the Securing of the Oak Straps. This Complexity Prohibited their Removal to Install New Leather Handles and Would Have Resulted in Marring or Damaging the Workmanship.

Working Brass Lock AND Key!

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HUGE Flat Top Trunk
33"L x 21"D x 24"H
Local Pickup is Preferred Due to the Substantial Size and Weight of this Fantastic Trunk because of the triple layering wood body and all of the cast iron hardware! This trunk is awesome, "dark" and intricate reminding one of a piece of furniture from a Victorian "Gothic" scene. This is not your nice and dainty trunk and will make a statement in any room it is in. There is a maker's brass tag on the lid which reads: "National Trunk Factory, C.P. Douglas, unreadable serial number, Kansas City, MO". Perhaps CP Douglas was the original owner.

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Rare 1880 to Early 1890's Photograph of Antique Trunk Factory and Workers Using Albumen Silver Print Method, Mounted to a Period Board Which Dates The Photo
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.

However the truth of the matter is that the majority of these trunks were made towards the middle to end of the 19th century just at the dawning of the industrial revolution here in America when there were no child labor laws or protections. This rare photo clearly illustrates at least 3 generations of owners and workers, ages appearing to range from pre-teen/adolescent, teens/early adult, through middle to old age!
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.

Note the adolescent factory workers on top row! Note that there are no women in the photo! This is due to the fact that at that time "proper" women did not work outside of the home, certainly not in a factory. Everybody appears to look pretty stern, having on their arms crossed and "work" faces put on.
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