Posted 8 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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Posted 8 years ago
eparson
(2 items)
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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All I Know is this is a Victorian Steamer Trunk. Probably made around the turn of the century.
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
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
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
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
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
I own a F.W. Gromm Trunk
Dated December 7 1899