Why Old Trunks Fascinate Me

Old storage boxes aren’t just places to keep things. They’re keepers of journeys. Before plastic tubs filled every house, trunks were the way people travelled. Built solid, heavy duty, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering.

I still think about when the circus came to town once a year. Posters glued to walls promised elephants, fire breathers, acrobats — and always clowns. Looking at the trunk feels like it was there backstage, stuffed with costumes and props, waiting for the show to begin.

When I first stumbled across the circus clown trunk, vintage trunk I froze for shop antique chest - click through the up coming website, metal storage trunk a moment. The red-nosed clown staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a fragment of a lost world — a travelling circus.