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    Posted 5 years ago

    Gage_rober…
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    I go to school at a theater in hartford. There is a huge prop storage room containing everything you could imagine from furniture to old fashioned telephone. I found this beat up old chest which is not made of cedar, and the theater let me keep it. I’m currently in the process of restoring it. It has old growth wood. All sides are solid pieces of redwood, we believe. It also had small wheels and its original lock which we’ll replace. The chest came from a dairy farm in New York in about 1910, and it may have been brought overseas from England. It was in a basement as well for many years. Does anyone have any idea about what brand made this chest? There is no stamping anywhere, but I believe it may have been hand - made.

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    1. fhrjr2 fhrjr2, 5 years ago
      I don't see the grain of redwood in these pictures. It looks more like Canadian Red Pine or even flat cut Spruce.

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