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   RickL750 | Dec 19, 2002 05:57pm | #1

   M. Silver,

   I tried my usual resources without success. Unfortunately this seems to be a rare item including the real thing thru antique dealers. All I could find was a few pictures. My suggestion is to use plans for a steamer trunk and modify them to meet your needs.

   Happy holidays,

   Rickl

   
   

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   Edited 12/19/2002 10:02:51 AM ET by RickL

   
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   silver77 | Dec 20, 2002 08:13am | #2

   Dear Rick

   Thank you so very much for sending the pictures.  I had drawn one from memory for Silver, but your pictures helped immensely.  Question!  How did you find them?  Not to pry, but are your sources a secret like the best berry picking locations?  Thanks once again, perhaps I'll get some old Fred Astaire videos over the holidays and see if I can get some more ideas.  Happy Holidays to you as well, from the Great White North.     M 

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   RickL750 | Dec 20, 2002 06:57pm | #3

   Hi M,

   I found those pictures on a website for a trunk restoration shop. Sorry but I can’t remember witch one, they were the only ones I found out of many sites I looked at. As for my sources they’re not a secret just a lot of links to websites and books I’ve accumulated thru the years, but I do have a secret berry picking patch in Maine an that’s all I’ll say about it. By the way have you looked at any books? I believe there might be a couple out there on history and restoration. Here are a couple of links I use for plans:

   http://www.the3house.com/   http://www.woodworkersworkshop.com/

   And this is a search engine that simultaneously searches multiple search engines such as About, Ask Jeeves, FAST, FindWhat, Google, LookSmart, Overture and many more with one single click. Try a search on “trunk” and you’ll get a lot of stores and shops that deal in them. http://www.dogpile.com/index.gsp

   Good Luck,

   Rickl

   Edited 12/20/2002 11:01:27 AM ET by RickL

   Edited 12/20/2002 11:03:05 AM ET by RickL