Posted 12 years ago
myoldkyhome
(22 items)
I bought this old trunk from a private person and paid $60. I don't know how old it is or who made it.
It has metal on the outside and has a center section that has a moon and stars pattern on stamped tin. The stamped tin is painted with a white background and a peach/pink color on the moons and stars. The inside of it has paper on it. The exterior of the trunk is scratched but otherwise in good condition. I don't know if the stamped tin would have been the colors that it is currently painted or if someone else has painted them at some point.
Nice trunk -- great buy! Probably made in the early 1900's. I doubt that those colors would be original to the trunk.
Yeah. I was thinking that it probably would be unlikely that those colors were original, but I'm just starting to learn about trunks. I assume the original would have been gold or silver and then some other color.
Some were stained colors and others were just the tin as is -- usually as a varnish of some sort. I love the star and moon pattern and have seen it on only two trunks I can recall. Yours is in really good condition.
I have actually seen the two tone painting on the embossed tin as orginal. The base is normally some shade of silver, but the raised colors could have varied greatly, as I have seen red, gold and a green. The moon and stars pattern is pretty hard to find in good condition. You made a great purchase.
Boonsborotrunks is correct in the two tone painting of the tin, with the relief a different color -- it makes a great contrast. Whoever did yours did a nice job by bringing out the relief of the pattern. Often I find the trays missing in these so bonus to have it there.
love it -- thanks for loving my old camel back -- i am going to go outside the flow on the comments as to whether the paint is original or has been refurbished -- looking at your first pic -- i can not see any paint on any of the stays -- and paint does what paint does best -- goes everywhere but where it is intended to go -- ergo -- i think yours is the original paint
I posted a trunk that is very similar and seems not to have been refinished. May help give some answers!
Wow! Been looking all over sites to find trunk with 1/2 moons & stars tin lid. Have this trunk. Restoring it as was brought over from Poland in the very early 1900's by relatives (with another larger, wood steamer trunk I've also refinished). They had to paint green / bright yellow for nearly blind aunt to see it when she was alive. I've been able to remove paint & rust. More work on it but will post pictures when done!
Barnegat7 oh my goodness I just found this trunk painted bright green/yellow at my local Goodwill over the weekend!! Tried to buy it but someone beat me to it and I am immeasurably disappointed, was already making plans in my head to restore it as soon as I saw it.