Just Another Old Box

[epackage]

Great keepsakes Renee... congrats

 

[idigjars]

Nice treasures left to you. Thank you for sharing them with us. Paul

 

[BillinMo]

Great finds, with a neat story behind them. Family treasures like that mean so much.

 

[Dugout]

Well on closer inspection I did find a partial label.

Does this make any sense to anyone? "loy . . . remen"

 

[Dugout]

And Dennis, what do you think of this glow?
Thanks, that was fun to do. My daughter is going to do some photography fun with these glasses and the black light.
I wonder what she will come up with?

 

[Dugout]

And Gordon, I gave it the good old linseed oil bath you recommended.
I gave the leather straps a treatment with leather cream.
Here is how it looks now.

 

[ironmountain]

looks like vaseline glass... always nice to get an heirloom with some history to it! wife's grandmother gave us a 2 drawer dresser/chest that had been passed down to her from her great grandmother when they lived in France...

that's a really sweet trunk.

page with what I believe is the one you have...

http://www.thepirateslair.com/2-126wood-flat-top-3quarters.html

 

[Dugout]

Hey IronM,
That looks rather close, but I see a few differences. My has a slight curve in the top. The rivets in the wood slats across the top are larger than on mine and I believe the metal on the edges is not the same. At least that is at first glance. Thanks for putting that up there.

 

[toddrandolph]

I used to redo a lot of trunks and if you want to replace the missing latches on the front they should not be hard to find as that is a very common style. Look on ebay or just buy a junker trunk for a couple dollars and take them off. They are put on with a special nail, you pound them in with something flat on inside of the trunk so that the nail curls around in the wood and holds it tight. I used a flat iron. I assume they still sell the nails, Van Dykes might have them.

 

[Dugout]

Here are some hardware that I detected up from an old trunk near one of the dugouts here.