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Seller's Notes:Reproduction of a steamer trunk with presentation plaque for Tom Rchards' 1914 voyage to South Africa. A large narrow trunk covered in charcoal waxed canvas with wood frame and metal mounts. Pale leather bands, handles and corners. With two canvas lined pull-out drawers on the sides.

After seemingly circling the globe, a canvas-clad steamer trunk landed at a famed European antiques market. It was battered and worn, but its careful construction and handsome detailing marked it as bespoke luggage, crafted in early 20th-century England for a traveler of discerning taste (a traveler whose name – according to the brass plate mounted above the latch – was Tom Richards). Plucked from potential obscurity, the trunk made its way to the workshop of Timothy Oulton, where it was painstakingly dismantled – every pin removed and measured, every hinge and brace scrutinized. And from that well-made, well-traveled trunk, a collection was born.

Brand: Restoration Hardware

Collection: Richard’s Trunk

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