Posted 8 years ago
LoriSCleans
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Just purchased this wardrobe. Anyone know any info about it? I'm planning on refinishing or painting and was wondering about the items history.
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Posted 8 years ago
LoriSCleans
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Just purchased this wardrobe. Anyone know any info about it? I'm planning on refinishing or painting and was wondering about the items history.
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What are its dimensions? recently saw some very similar pieces from the 1910s-1930s that were built for cruise ship cabins / college dormitories. There are a few photos in the slideshow here (pics 12 - 14): http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/window-shopping-at-the-anti-ikea/
Fascinating -- Innovation are well known trunk makers often specializing in wardrobe trunks. I believe it is originally a French company that expanded into the US. I have seen this exact label on many of their trunks.
The dimensions are: 4ft. 10 3/8 high, 4ft. 1 3/4 in. wide, and 2ft. deprh with the door. 1ft 11in. without door.
Also has a number ingraved into the back top right corner. 2252
A lot of these are mainly English design and started out during the 1920's, but a lot came to North America. This one of yours is marked so you have history on your side, as most are not marked. If you can find the patent number on the piece, you could actually find the piece and application for making . Strange it does not have that patent number, but maybe hidden.
Also you may want to check it being on display at the international expo world's fair in america, since the dates coincide.
Is this the patent,I wonder? They mostly made Streamer trucks and streamer wardrobes.
http://www.google.com.au/patents/US760725
Oh - it's small! For a train cabin or cruise ship cabin maybe?
Oh wow - cool link up there!
Yep- it was Seymour W Bonsall who patented many wardrobe components! Including a trousers-hanger # US1900152627A
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/0737569.html
What an interesting guy. He was also involved in MANY lawsuits regarding his patents. Here's one involving The Innovative Trunk Company and who actually owned it etc. (Go to page 20) Arthur C. Platt the Plaintiff give his explanation... (OH MY! Such intrigue!!)
https://books.google.com/books?id=7ojAGKU8tTUC&pg=RA1-PA13&lpg=RA1-PA13&dq=Seymour+W+Bonsall&source=bl&ots=lLtxZEwzkr&sig=UEIzEfuyJMrqw2uiRYo54T1k09o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjek6ey27DQAhUPymMKHU0fAJ4Q6AEIKTAE#v=onepage&q&f=false
The plaintiff won $13,000. Bonsall was the early 20th century Trump. Use and abuse and then pay them NOTHING! Wow!!
Hm - I wonder how this was found out?
"One of my favourite brochures collected by Le Corbusier and currently stored in the archives of L’Esprit Nouveau is a publicity leaflet in the shape of a wardrobe trunk by early 1900s trunk and suitcase manufacturer Innovation.
The main characteristics of Innovation’s trunks were the racks for hangers to avoid stacking. Apparently this idea of transforming the boring trunk into a portable closet came to Manhattan stockbroker Seymour W. Bonsall in 1897 during a vision in a dream. After his dream Bonsall hastened to build his first wardrobe trunk and, in 1898, he opened Innovation Trunk Co. launching his first products. Somehow I thought this image with its trompe l'oeil graphic would be the perfect idea for a catwalk invitation card."
http://www.irenebrination.typepad.com/irenebrination_notes_on_a/2011/04/le-corbusier-lesprit-nouveau.html
He then went on to call his company Innovation Ingenuities Incorporated . Much more info there...
Wow -he was cash on the barrelhead. NO credit, he was forced out. (Ok, I'm done!)
https://books.google.com/books?id=vZtAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA669&lpg=PA669&dq=%22innovation+ingenuities+incorporated%22&source=bl&ots=nAiidrL27F&sig=KIbWcUopuySsdXLcOA3lgoIIXbQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4rcX_5bDQAhWJxFQKHcb_DWQQ6AEIGzAA#v=onepage&q&f=false