Mens travelling trunk - Can anybody help me with a date?

[cupcake]

My housemates dad recently brought us over a present - This mens? travelling case/trunk. He found it on the side of the road!
Could anybody here help me with dating this? I'd love to know more about it.

The tag/label/maker

Opened up, they slide out into drawers. Check out the wooden coat hangers!

And the outside


So FLers? What's the verdict?

 

[Warbaby]

That style was popular during the Edwardian era and on into the 20s. The one you have may look a bit grubby, but it appears to be intact and definitely restorable. I've brought a lot of vintage luggage back to life and can give you some tips if you decide to fix it up.

 

[dhermann1]

What you have is a classic steamer trunk. Great find! I'd guess 20's, or 30's, but I think they were still in use as late as the 50's.

 

[Feraud]

Watajoy is correct. That's a great item!

 

[SameRound]

A small link that might be help you. (I do not make commercials that are fans who are doing their job) :

http://www.la-malle-en-coin.com/mal...drobe-bois-avec-coiffeuse-et-cintres-233.html

Another link on the wardrobe trunks : http://www.oldtrunks.com/history/historypages/wardrobe_trunks.htm


Maybe too, if you write to them they will give you more details on your luggage.

 

[BinkieBaumont]

Oh i like it most, awfully , smart and stylish

 

[Shangas]

Correct me if I'm wrong, folks, but isn't this style of travelling-trunk/suitcase called a portmanteau?

They were very common during the last quarter and first quarter of the 19th and 20th centuries, as they permitted men to safely transport items such as shoes, suits, shirts, ties, collars etc, without them being crushed, as they might be, in a regular suitcase. I believe they started dying out in the 1930s because, as you might see, this is a rather LARGE piece of luggage, which was tricky to load into an automobile, as opposed to a carriage, where all the stuff was just dumped on the roof.

Cases like this finally died out for good in the 1950s when ocean-travel began to decline in favour of faster airline travel.