Regency period leather trunk
Maker: Richard Free of High Holborn London
L:18 inches (46 mm)
D: 9 1/2 inches (24 mm)
H: 6 1/2 inches (18 mm)
Leather trunk with original paper lining and original trade label for Richard Tree of HIgh Holborn London
Made around 1810 this leather trunk with brass nail decoration and is in exceptional original order
About the maker: Richard Tree is listed in Johnstones London Commercial Guide 1818 as a Trunk and Case maker at 115 High Holborn London. Further references to him for 1814 and 1815 can be found in the minutes of the 'Society for the encouragement of arts and manufactures and commerce - Great Britain)