Last weekend when we were traveling home from having visited some of Casey's family, we passed by this little side of the road antique store. We turned around to check it out and it was such a fun little adventure! There were two old ladies who own it and were so excited to see us walk in. We started looking around and noticed they had some really great things and great prices. Casey and I both love antique stores but we get frustrated when you walk in and it's junk, overly polished and/or way overpriced! This was definitely our kind of antique store! The ladies were so much fun too! They were excited to find that we recognized what a lot of the things were and had an obvious appreciation for antiques. They were slashing prices on pretty much anything we looked at and we found out it was because they love to shop for antiques so they need to clear stuff off their floor to have more room to buy more! Haha.
This trunk was one of the items that we purchased from them...and for a ridiculously low price! It was sitting on top of another trunk and there were told old saddles sitting on top of it. I noticed the side profile of this trunk and was immediately intrigued because I'd never seen this style before. Casey and I both loved the look it has and when they told us how much they'd sell it for...we were sold!
In our research since then we have discovered that it is a very rare trunk and one of the most sought after styles that is very hard to come by...and definitely not for the price we paid. We don't know if these ladies were feeling particularly generous or if they didn't know what they had.
It is a Jenny Lind hour-glass stagecoach trunk and they were only made from 1855-1865. They were named after a singer known as the 'Swedish Nightingale' who in the mid 1800's came to the United States for her first concert tour, riding the wing's of PT Barnum's promotion. She became a star, and as stars are often imitated, the hour-glass trunk she used became all the rage.
Again, obviously it needs quite a bit of work. We found a guy who is going to fix the structural aspects for us and then we'll see what we do with the rest. We do not want it to look brand new or even close to it. We want to leave a lot of it 'as-is'.
Anyway...we'll definitely post 'after' pictures when we have those.
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