Fantastic Antique Dome Top Trunk with RARE Stars and Moon Celestial Design in the Pressed Tin Giving it that Ethereal Other-Worldly Look! The outside pressed tin and all hardware polished, inside paper was removed to reveal the beautiful 100+ year old cured pine wood, black japanning removed from the exterior oak wood slats, inside lid lithograph design and picture of a man plowing his field with two oxen was saved! Non-working Lock, new leather handles and original end caps. |
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30"L x 16"D x 20"H Another fantastic trunk perfect for an apartment or room with space considerations. Certainly could be used as a shadowbox to display and safely store Navy or Military awards, medals, uniforms, etc etc. One of a Kind!!!! |
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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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