Posted 11 years ago
maize33
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I purchased this old trunk at a yard sale. I know very little about it other than it has an Eagle Lock Company lock 73Y5 on the front. The trunk is metal with leather buckled straps. Hinges are in good shape. Has an internal cloth covered box with small leather straps.
I sent the pictures to Brettuns Village.com and they told me that it likely is a Sears or Wards catalog trunk made sometime between the 1880's to as late as possibly the 1930's. There are no other labels inside the trunk, however they did say there were a couple of manufacturers who typically made trunks for Sears and Wards; MM Secor and M. Meier.
I sure would love to learn more about it! If anyone has any knowledge, or can point me the right direction for further research, I'd greatly appreciate it. ;-)
Information found on Eagle Lock Co.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Lock_CompanyEagle Lock Company
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This is the dump of eagle lock company, there are thousands of bottles, shoes, metal debris etc here, Most of the items are from the boarding home off of prospect street, the dump was abandoned when the dump on tunnel road opened up, and it was later sold to the Oirileys, who built a home, and a farm on the property, the home was demolished in 2011 to re-do the road
The only building of Eagle lock company that was not altered after the fire of 1978
The Eagle Lock Company (established 1833), was at one time the largest trunk and cabinet lock maker in the world. It was based in Terryville, CT. Eagle Lock was at the forefront of padlock security in its time. The main company was in Terryville, but they had opened another factory in Ohio.The factory had a manufacturing line of over 2000 different kinds of locks, a sales room was once operated on chambers street in New York City. ironically enough, the lock factory had fires very often and burning down almost all of the wooden buildings instantly, while the Collinsville, Connecticut Axe factory had never even had one fire. The factory had consisted of one main office building, and later in 1889 and 1905, extra work space was added including Two five story buildings on either side of the office. The factory had a boarding house on prospect street for Male employees, the boarding house was torn down in the early 1900s, many eagle lock workers and teachers lived here. The lock company housed four ponds including upper pond (now Terryville Fish and Game), middle pond (now privately owned), lower pond (no longer in existence but once held water to power the Eli terry waterwheel), and Reservoir One (once filling up all of the land behind the congregational church and along eagle street, it was drained and removed after a fire in 1978). The factory had had buildings where the Terryville Rite Aid is and where the new park next to the waterwheel is. Today, only four of the buildings out of some 50 remain, only one of the buildings was not altered, while the other three were disconnected and had floors removed. the lock company finally went out of business in 1975, due to a strike from the remaining employees, the employees were honored for over 65 years of laboring work in the towns 175th annual birthday.[1]
Dave