Another fantastic All Wood Small Desktop Size Antique Dome Top Trunk! Also known as a "Salesman Sampler" this antique trunk would fit perfectly on a Desk, Table, Shelf or Dresser as a Jewelry or Document Box. Both the exterior and the interior were covered with a thin paper which when removed revealed the beautiful 100+ year old cured pine wood. The entire trunk was scubbed, dried and lightly sanded with a coat of spar varnish applied. Has the Original end caps, remnants of the interior paper found on the inside lid remain along with the fantastic Victorian Lithograph of a dog pulling a wagon with a boy and a girl. Has a working lock but no key. |
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14"L x 9"D x 10"H Remnants of the original paper covering were left on the inside lid with the original 19th century lithograph of a dog harnessed to a wagon along with a boy and a girl playing! These small "salesman samplers" are VERY rare as only a few were actually made which were typically given away when they were no longer needed as displays. Rarer still were trunks of this size made all of wood in the dome top style. We only get a few of these small dometops a year!! |
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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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