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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 352721, member: 5833&quot;]When we read &#039;trunk&#039; we tend to think steamer trunk.&nbsp; Debora is right that this would be better described as a&nbsp; carved wooden chest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe a member here with a membership at ancestry.com can check what it says about the <a href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&amp;gsln=Ahmling&amp;gspl=35&amp;gss=seo&amp;ghc=20" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=allgs&amp;gsln=Ahmling&amp;gspl=35&amp;gss=seo&amp;ghc=20" rel="nofollow">Claus Ahmling listed here</a>. Not at all my area of expertise, but strikes me as being genuinely quite old; whether as old as 1797...?&nbsp; Maybe the year the business was founded?&nbsp; Are the compass rose decorations inlaid?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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