Antique items have an unparalleled charm of its own. Connoisseurs of antiquities understand this and can go to any extent and pay any amount to possess them.

Antique trunks are one of the most enviable possessions that one might think of. Beauty and class apart, antique trunks are mysterious and intriguing, with uncertain history and place of origin.

The interest generated by its place of origin can be understood by the fact that most of the restored antique trunks were owned by emigrants.

Any emigrant to the United States would have undoubtedly possessed a copy of the Statue of Liberty and stacked safely in one of these trunks.

Many of them must have traveled continents and deserts along with their owners to find means of sustenance, evade dictatorial regimes or catastrophic famines.

In fact antique trunks are much more than mere wooden boxes, for the fertile mind; these are witnesses of a bygone era and pages of history replete with myriad imaginations and possibilities.

These objects of beauty come in a variety of shapes, sizes and styles. Jenny Lind, rare paper covered trunks from the cold war era, unique bed trunks, and brass bound trunks.

It is amazing that wood have been crafted into so many shapes and styles, ranging from standard cuboids to pear Jenny Lind trunks. Others include table trunks and even Louis Vuitton trunks representing a class of its own times.

There are innumerable reasons to own an antique trunk and trying to enlist them will be severely limiting, if not Quixotic.

Inclination towards history, love for antiquities, aesthetics, mystery, charm, nostalgia and the list can go on.