Hello Beth n all, I have a wooden trunk that my grandfather made. He lived in South Australia and went, with his parents and most of the siblings, in 1904 and settled in the Martinborough area. Among his possessions, and now in my care, is his wooden trunk and I'm not sure just where it was he made it - NZ or South Australia. It is heavy; 68cm wide x 58cm deep x 48cm high, the interior is unfinished timber and the outer was very aged black matt finish. I has metal latch on the front and two metal side handles. The box has metal strapping top to bottom on from & back and the lid is hinged. I've taken photo's if anyone is interested (cannot post on here). Our family have always referred to this as 'Grandpa Tyler's Black Box' and as youngsters knew that Grandpa always housed his religious books etc in it. Thanks for bringing back memories, Beth (and making me take the photos!). Glenys 10. Metal steamer trunk (aotueka) 11. Re: Metal steamer trunk (Karen Hitchcock) 12. Re: Metal steamer trunk (Stuart Park) ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 13:10:36 +1200 From: aotueka <[email protected]> Subject: [nz] Metal steamer trunk To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hello. I have a metal steamer trunk that I understand belonged to my gr-gr-grandmother. ?She had it circa 1880/1890. ?It has riveted reinforced corners and the lid is kinda rounded on the edges. And it is relatively weighty. They have a duplicate at the Auckland Maritime Museum in the immigrant ship display. ?But when I asked then about the trunk such as the dates that such trunks would have been used etc, they claimed to know nothing. I'd like to find out about them but came up blank on the internet. ?Does anyone know of these or have any idea about the date of them? The dimensions are 460mm high x 500mm deep x 740mm wide. Thanks, Beth Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.