TRAVELING TRUNK

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Currently in storage

About this object

Horizontal rectangular traveling trunk with leather handles on side, brass hardware and tacks throughout.

Catalog number:: 2018.17.3
Signature marks:: MONOGRAM PR side many versions of MMP's initials that have been removed LABEL #5 PR white adhesive tape INSCRIPTION 5 PR & PL side painted yellow INSCRIPTION M.P./12. top painted yellow LABEL Hahn Bros./New York City/ Lot No. 24286/ Place No 295 red and white square LABEL #5 top paper label LABEL Railway Express Agency Inc./ Mrs. Joe Davis/ 3100 Macomb St. Washington D.C./ Value $5,000/Date of shipment 9/29/51/From (blank)/Street Address (undreadable)/City and State/Lake Clear Junction NY/ 25809-17 PL Side MARK 2401/AS7 PL side leather handle LABEL Locked Shipment Collect when parts of this shipment are on seperate delivery sheets agents at destination will adjust charges to proper amount on the number of pieces received. Forwarding office Lake Clear Junction NY (551-M) delivery sheet number (illegible) 9;/24/51 declared value $5,000 number of pieces 8 weight of entire shipment 936 railway express agency incorporated sticker MARK Made for Oshkosh/Yale/Made in U.S.A./The Yale and Towne MFG. Co./OTC54A lock LABEL U.S. Pattents/Oshkosh Trunks Inc patent label that lists patten dates from 1912-1930
Credit line:: Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973