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BOOKS
The Most Recent Antique
Trunk Book from Morse and Edlestein
$30 per book, USA shipping
included 
Both functional and
beautiful, a growing number of people are interested in and fascinated
with antique trunks.
Many baby boomers unsure
of their value or how to restore them are now inheriting them from parents
and grandparents.
This comprehensive book
provides identification and pricing information for popular styles dating
back nearly 200 years, as well as general restoration tips and techniques.
Antique Trunks provides
readers with photographs and values for steamer, humpback,
Saratoga, Jenny Lind, Louis
Vuitton, stagecoach, and many others.
Authors Pat Morse and Linda
Edelstein have included valuable historical information for major styles
of trunks made from 1750 through 1930.
This complete guide also
offers information on what to look for when purchasing a trunk,
a database of more than
250 trunk makers, and a catalog of available parts and replacement pieces.
More than 400 detailed photographs
and prices for nearly 200 years of popular trunk styles.
Includes an archive of original
and restored trunk makers' labels, Victorian prints, and trunk maker advertisements.
Provides a special section
on the anatomy of a trunk and a glossary of terms.
Antique
Trunks, Refinish, Repair, Restore
By
Paul Pat Morse and Linda Edelstein
Antique Trunks, Refinish,
Repair, Restore is the definitive how-to book on refinishing any type of
antique trunk.
It includes over 140 well
illustrated pages of tips and techniques put together by the master craftsmen
of The Trunk Shop,
based in New Hampshire.
It includes sections on removing exterior and interior linings, wood and
metal repair, safety, finishing, and painting.
Antique
Trunks
By
Paul Pat Morse and Linda Edelstein
Antique Trunks is an identification
and price guide for many styles of antique trunks including steamer, humpback,
Saratoga, Jenny Lind, Louis Vuitton,
stagecoach and others. It
also has a trunkmakers database of over 200 different makers. Put
together by the owners of The Trunk Shop in New Hampshire.
Trunks,
Traveling Bags, and Satchels, A Collection of Styles
This Book contains pictures
of more than one hundred old trunk and bag styles. It's a little
light on text,
but the pictures are helpful.
Most of the pictures appear to have been pulled from old catalogs.
Vintage
Luggage
by Gulshan
Hard cover, 160 pages of
useful information about vintage luggage. Includes info on makers'
marks, uses, styles, etc. Great collection of information.
Woodworking
Plans for Round Top Trunk
For the woodworker in the
family, this is a nice set of trunk plans. Why dig around for an
antique trunk when you can build a brand-spanking new one?
Sears,
Roebuck Home Builder's Catalog From 1910
This is a neat old catalog
to thumb through, has pictures of some old trunks and bags.
The
American Line: Pioneers of Ocean Travel
Fun information about steamship
travel and the famous American Line, from the golden age of travel
TUNES
And don't forget to have
the proper music playing while you're banging your trunk around in the
garage.
This is our current favorite
in the shop:
License
to Chill, by Jimmy Buffett
For those of us who followed
Jimmy Buffett's career through the 70s, 80s, and 90s, this collection of
tunes feels like victory.
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