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Posted 10 months ago
trunkman
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This is a civil war era child's trunk or half sized trunk. When I acquired it it was completely weathered. The pine was water stained black and the steel bands were quite rusted and pitted. I choose a dark stain to hide the water damage and I took as much rust off the steel as possible and put on a lick of gun oil. I was pleasantly surprised at the turn out. Chinablue I hope this helps a little in seeing what the pine body of a weathered trunk can look like with a darker stain.
TrunksAntique trunks, also called traveling chests, were originally used as lugga…
I love it! Thank you for posting this. As much as the 'great restoration' ones are, with their shiny metal and sleek gleaming wood, ones that look like this are more, I don't know.. honest, maybe? .. to me. They aren't new, and they were used and they make no apologies for it. Your pictures give me hope that mine can be more than black and blue. :-)
Does your house have a lid on it?!?!
Sure that isn't a seaman's chest? I have 1 that is 26" long x 11 1/2" wide x 9" high.
Could be -- I am not familiar with what would make a trunk a seaman's chest.
Seaman's chest were usually small as they didn't have much to carry. You don't give the diamentions so I can't go on that. A seaman's chest would have an over-lapping mortice on the lid so that water coming over the top would not go inside easily. The were usually sealed fairly water tight but of course poorer crew had to live with what they could get. Actually, a "captain's trunk" wouldn't be much larger than the measurements on mine usually. Sailors "Travel light & travel often".