A Decorative Late Victorian Pink Painted Pine Trunk c.1900 sub-Macabre- Medicine with one taped repair and

with one taped repair and the feet are all original

but the consensus that "cardinalis" from the word cardo (meaning 'pivot' or 'hinge') was first used in late antiquity to designate a bishop or priest who was incorporated into a church for which he had not originally been ordained

The areas of wear are consistent with how it has been used over almost one hundred and fifty years with some areas still showing the original plum

with the blue and pink ground flaking in places

A Decorative Late Victorian Pink Painted Pine Trunk c.1900 sub-Macabre- Medicine with one taped repair andOrigin: British Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Depth: 17. 25 Width: 28. 25 Height: 19. 5 The dusty pink painted pine travelling trunk or blanket box having a vacant interior with its original iron carrying handles and hinges, the whole on railed feet for ease of travel, with a wonderful patina and texture to its surfaces and surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century. This trunk has some obvious signs of use: there