Old looking small chest???

[indica]

Hi everyone I'm new here and this is my first post.. I was wondering if anyone could give me any info on this chest. I have had it for about 10yrs and dont know anything about it, other then I found it in my great aunts basement after she passed away. I tried to post pics but i got an error every time so I did it this way sorry.

http://iindica211.webs.com/chest.jpg
http://iindica211.webs.com/chest1.jpg
http://iindica211.webs.com/chest2.jpg
http://iindica211.webs.com/chest3.jpg
http://iindica211.webs.com/chest4.jpg

Thanks for looking.

[bigwull]

can you give us the dimensions...if i had found this i,would have been expecting it to be full of gold doubloons,or pieces of eight,....it looks ancient...as for age....a 100 + years perhaps....value... very little to anyone else....but to you...priceless

[indica]

Yea it looks really cool when I found it I took it to my granny instantly and was like can I have this, to my surprise she said yes.. Know what I know now I would have got a lot more from that house. The woman had a great history and was even miss Kentucky at one time and had her basement packed from floor to ceiling with cool stuff.

The chest is 7 1/2" tall 1' long and 7 1/2" wide..

I found the coolest looking vase there that I wish to this day I never sold.
It looked hand made like from clay and hand painted with a swastika stamped on the bottom of it. I took it to a local antique auction show and no one could tell me what it was. I had one guy say he didnt have a clue, then he chased me down about an hr later, stating he still didnt know what it was but gave me a $100 dollar bill for it. Being young dumb with a baby on the way I said sure, I have never been able to find out what it was. The closet thing I came up with was it might have been a urn instead.

[bigwull]

Don,t beat yourself up about wishing you,d never sold this "urn"...we,ve all been there...at the time..it probably seemed like the right thing to do...and i have no doubt..you put the $100 to good use...but what i find most intriguing, is it had a swastika on the base...we,ve had a few discussions lately about this symbol...and contrary to what most people think of this symbol...its a good symbol....now back to this small chest...being the size it is..its most likely been used in the past for personal papers...birth certificates,family pictures...or items of that nature...as to the condition...well, i suppose we can call this..."the ultimate shabby-chic"...

[mart]

Pics are so dark I couldn`t see it !!  Try resizing the pics to about 1500kb and try to post them here !!  There is a size limit on this site !!

[indica]

Thanks bigwull it sure did .

Mart I took them with my phone. I'lll get my camera and try to take some better pics and post them. 

[mart]

Thanks !!

[bigwull]

I think its time you were getting broadband...can,t you get it via freesat...or something similar...can you see these pics....you can open them up

[Rauville]

Your small chest would probably be called a doll trunk in the Jenny Lind style. In good condition they bring good money.

http://www.rubylane.com/item/465919-RL-0010-06182728/Early-Antique-Miniature-Jenny-Lind

[mart]

Still dark !!  Opening is not the problem,, time it takes to download is !!  We are in the boonies and cost for installation of broadband is close to a grand !! I just can`t justify the cost for something for me to play with !! If I used it to make a living or something wouldn`t be bad !!  But its just something for me to piddle with !!

[indica]

Thank you Rauville, I wonder how old this thing is that chest looks cool..

Here mart hope these look better for you.

[ghopper1924]

I'd guess 2nd half of the 19th century, no idea about value in this condition.