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:
- with handle: 44 × 23 × 23 in. (111.8 × 58.4 × 58.4 cm) without handle: 41 1/2 × 23 × 23 in. (105.4 × 58.4 × 58.4 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 2018.17.1
- Signature marks:
- MONOGRAM P PL and PR side P in yellow oval with blue, yellow and white stripe horizontally around trunk center LABEL Osh Kosh Trunks Inc/Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.A. metal label INSCRIPTION 4 front painted yellow INSCRIPTION M.P./4. top painted yellow engraving Made for Oshkosh/Yale/Made in U.S.A./The Yale and Towne MFG. Co. on lock LABEL Arthur Gilmore Inc/Luggage N top metal LABEL U.S. Pattents/Oshkosh Trunks Inc top lists patten dates from 1912-1930
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973