TRAVELING TRUNK
Currently in storage
About this object
Vertical rectangular traveling trunk, opens in center front with leather handle on top, brass hardware and tacks throughout, two wooden rails on each side.
- Object name:
- TRAVELING TRUNK
- Made from:
- Brass --wood --leather --vulcanized rubber (?) --aluminum
- Size:
- 42 × 23 × 23 in. (106.7 × 58.4 × 58.4 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 2018.17.7
- Signature marks:
- engraving Made for Oshkosh/Yale/Made in U.S.A./OTC 538/The Yale and Towne MFG. Co. lock LABEL Osh Kosh Trunks Inc/Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.A. metal label MONOGRAM P PL side blue in yellow circle with blue, white, yellow stripe vertically around center, PL side painted oval does not have the P and is empty 11 front painted yellow M.P./11. top painted yellow with D blocked out LABEL U.S. Pattents/Oshkosh Trunks Inc" that lists patten dates from 1912-1930 lists patten dates from 1912-1930 x060_(illegible) leather handle
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973