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Bela Lugosi |
This trunk was horror star Bela Lugosi's personal wardrobe trunk which he used while traveling abroad performing "Dracula" on stage. The trunk is now in a private collection.
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Helen Maria Barnum, second of four daughters of P. T. and Charity Barnum, was born April 18, 1840. She married Samuel Hurd when she was 17. Hurd later became the assistant manager and treasurer of his father-in-law's famous circus. The trunk below once belonged to Helen Barnum. It originally had a leather covering. Note her name stenciled on one end of the trunk. Note too the cast latches, handle loops and other hardware. The trunk is now in a private collection.
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When we found this little trunk not far from the
US/Canadian border we immediately fell in love with it. We were told it was from
Canada so we guessed that the "MP" by the name on the label stood either for
Member of Parliament or Mounted Police (too old for Military Police). We had no
idea how much of its history we would later find. A quick search online and we
found the following:
Rufus Henry Pope took the place of his father, John Henry Pope, in the Canadian
Parliament upon his father's death in 1889. The younger Pope served until 1905.
He was named a Senator in 1911. Both men belonged to the Conservative Party for
Compton County, Quebec. Rufus H. Pope died in 1944 and is buried in the
Cookshire Anglican Cemetery.
The trunk sold from our Trunk Barn before we could offer it online. It is now in
a private collection.
The photos below show the trunk after we restored it.
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