Trunk
- Object Name:
- Trunk
- Object ID:
- 1969.052.24
- Date:
- circa 1820
- Description:
- Trunk, small wood, domed top, covered with deer skin (some hair still on). Brass furniture pull on top with oval brass escutcheons, 3.9" apart. Bail pivots with turned decoration on them. Leather on top extends from top edge, down back, and down to bottom surface a little, held in place by iron tacks. Leather on front and sides extends down sides and onto bottom, fastened with steel tacks. Steel tacks along top edge of bottom section on front and sides. Band of darker-colored leather, ~0.7" wide on front, top, and back edges, held in place by brass upholstery tacks. Horizontal leather apron, 1.1" wide on top, extending down beyond bottom edge of lid. At its top edge, different leather band with slight, serrated scallops, held in place by brass upholstery tacks. Repeat of scallops 0.9". Iron lock plate on front of bottom section, measures 2.5" wide x 1.9" high. Held in place by four steel tacks. Vertically-oriented, rectangular hole in upper left corner. Keyhole with post at bottom center of plate. Decorative brass cover that pivots above keyhole, swinging over it. Two flange ends on either side of keyhole that separate front and back plates of lock mechanism. No key present. Lock plate appears to be painted black and also slightly out of square. Additional mounting hole lower left corner of plate. Iron hasp piece mounted under leather on bottom edge of lid. Evidence of rest of hasp in shadow of it in leather on front of top. Elevated lip mounted on side and front surfaces on inside of box of interior of bottom section. Two broken restraining straps either side of lid, severed near junction with bottom section of box. Two threaded brass posts with round brass nuts on them inside lid. Two leather hinge pieces at back of box, near left and right edges, 0.75" wide; hidden under leather covering at back of box. Lined with blue-dotted white paper; blue dots ~0.45" apart, diameter ~0.1". Bottom of box plain wood.
- Material:
- Wood
Leather
Brass
Iron
Tissue - Dimensions:
- H-6.6 W-12.3 D-7 inches Weight-40.8 oz
- Provenance:
- Objects and manuscripts from the Nims and Knight families of Roxbury, NH, and the Rugg family of Sullivan, NH, given by a descendant, Helen E. (Mrs. Charles B.) Knight of Marlborough, NH.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Helen E. Knight
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