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    Posted 7 years ago

    eparson
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    Anyone know anything about this trunk? It was left to me by my late Mother, the label reads F.W. Gromm, out of Denver.

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    1. McCoyNelson McCoyNelson, 7 years ago
      All I Know is this is a Victorian Steamer Trunk. Probably made around the turn of the century.
    2. PoliticalPinbacks PoliticalPinbacks, 7 years ago
      Welcome to CW!!! F.W. Gromm Message Boards might be some extra help
      https://www.ancestry.com/boards/surnames.gromm/1.1.3.2/mb.ashx

      Below maybe a little info, Looks like the same trunk anyhow
      https://www.chairish.com/product/576349/antique-1800s-steamer-trunk

      Good Luck

    3. PoliticalPinbacks PoliticalPinbacks, 7 years ago
      This one looks like it very well may be the same as your trunk:
      http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/134074-dome-top-trunk-circa-1880s
      Sadly it has little info other then some hardware patent dates of 1877 & 1883
    4. Drill Drill, 7 years ago
      https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US910324-0.png

      https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/pages/US255122-0.png
      Some patents that may apply.
      Here are additional labels of F.W. Gromm

      http://d5m5yim0wevx1.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/appraisal_images/Trunk%20002_0.jpg

      https://ofgraveyardsandthings.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/1875grommmcclellanad-p-290-copy.jpg?w=584
    5. Drill Drill, 7 years ago
      This is a cross slat barrel top trunk contains many metal foundry pieces manufactured by the J.H. Sessions co.That were sold to hundreds of trunk manufactures.
      here is a bit of the history of the foundry that produced those parts.

      https://books.google.com/books?id=ilk_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=J.H.+Sessions+hardware+patent&source=bl&ots=Qt940I2pOA&sig=LNkq36ERKrwOLJzI4jqHPF4DbZk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=o9clVdPzAejdsAT81IG4DA&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=J.H.%20Sessions%20hardware%20patent&f=false

      Here is one of the many catalogs that sold this style of trunk.

      https://books.google.com/books?id=_gdrCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA269&lpg=PA269&dq=Iron+clamp+trunk+patents&source=bl&ots=x3-9qizbmS&sig=oDhbMKu45tC9rozW5hWb1U5l-OY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLnIe_z_nOAhWIVBQKHcgzCCsQ6AEIPDAI#v=onepage&q=Iron%20clamp%20trunk%20patents&f=false
    6. greendog greendog, 7 years ago
      Not to nitpick, but this is not a steamer trunk, people think that every trunk made was called a steamer trunk, wrong!, steamer trunks were a specific size and shape, flat and square looking, in the 30 to 34 inch long range give or take and usually no higher than 14 inches so that they would fit under the bunks on steamer ships, hence the name steamer trunk. greendog
    7. VictorianV, 2 years ago
      I own a F.W. Gromm Trunk
      Dated December 7 1899

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