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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 177264, member: 44&quot;]I agree with the others. At first I thought it might be a dome top (AKA humpbacks and camelbacks) rather than a round top. A round top slopes down from the center only to the front and back with the crest the same height from end to end. A dome top slopes down front, back and to the ends. </p><p><br /></p><p>Round tops came metal-covered, leather-covered and wooden. Yours is a little unusual having 5 horizontal staves. They usually had only 3 horizontal staves or 5 wood or metal vertical staves. Really look closely at hardware (lock, hinges, etc...) for possibly patent info. Sometimes you can luck into an actual patent date of the hardware meaning the earliest the trunk could date.</p><p><br /></p><p>Komo... has already shown some of the lining pics found in these trunk. Here is a page of more.</p><p><a href="http://www.oldtrunks.com/history/historypages/picturepages/pictures-ladies.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.oldtrunks.com/history/historypages/picturepages/pictures-ladies.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.oldtrunks.com/history/historypages/picturepages/pictures-ladies.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an fairly good antique trunk site. It has examples, trunk parts, they restore - can be expensive, etc.</p><p><a href="http://www.brettunsvillage.com/trunks/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.brettunsvillage.com/trunks/" rel="nofollow">http://www.brettunsvillage.com/trunks/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Thought this page about value was fun.</p><p><a href="http://www.brettunsvillage.com/trunks/value.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.brettunsvillage.com/trunks/value.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.brettunsvillage.com/trunks/value.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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