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<p>[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 326866, member: 54"]The latch is probably the most reliable way to put an approximate date on your trunk. You may have to look thru lots of patents to see what the earliest date could be, because from the looks, that’s the original latch. Maybe someone has a website with old latches. Or there are always lots of Sears catalogs online, a good source of latch info.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="springfld.arsenal, post: 326866, member: 54"]The latch is probably the most reliable way to put an approximate date on your trunk. You may have to look thru lots of patents to see what the earliest date could be, because from the looks, that’s the original latch. Maybe someone has a website with old latches. Or there are always lots of Sears catalogs online, a good source of latch info.[/QUOTE]
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