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<p>[QUOTE="WilliamTK1974, post: 4253434, member: 20965"]From what I have seen, it has the look of a Jacob Bloom, but no identifying marks. It seems like there is very little information on the Jacob Bloom Company that's easily found. I also thought it could have been ordered from the Sears catalog. My family used to have a reproduction of a Sears catalog from the mid-1890s, but it appears to have gotten away, so there's no way for me to check and see if Sears was selling hope chests in their catalog at that time.</p><p><br /></p><p>On top of that, I think I was looking at the wrong sister when I typed the original posting. One of the ancestry databases was incomplete. The sister who may have owned this chest was born in 1861. My great-great grandfather was born in 1880. It would make sense that a woman with the name Margaret Elizabeth could be known as "Mamie," and that's the name my mother used when she told me about the chest's history. Mamie died in 1922. My great-grandmother, who was alive until I was 11, was born in 1903 and was married around 1920. It's possible that the chest was given to her to use as a hope chest, and that she passed it to my grandmother, who would have in turn given it to my mother.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a couple of other vintage pieces where it seem almost providential that they made their way to me, because their pathway to my possession was anything but straight and simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you,</p><p>-William[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="WilliamTK1974, post: 4253434, member: 20965"]From what I have seen, it has the look of a Jacob Bloom, but no identifying marks. It seems like there is very little information on the Jacob Bloom Company that's easily found. I also thought it could have been ordered from the Sears catalog. My family used to have a reproduction of a Sears catalog from the mid-1890s, but it appears to have gotten away, so there's no way for me to check and see if Sears was selling hope chests in their catalog at that time. On top of that, I think I was looking at the wrong sister when I typed the original posting. One of the ancestry databases was incomplete. The sister who may have owned this chest was born in 1861. My great-great grandfather was born in 1880. It would make sense that a woman with the name Margaret Elizabeth could be known as "Mamie," and that's the name my mother used when she told me about the chest's history. Mamie died in 1922. My great-grandmother, who was alive until I was 11, was born in 1903 and was married around 1920. It's possible that the chest was given to her to use as a hope chest, and that she passed it to my grandmother, who would have in turn given it to my mother. I have a couple of other vintage pieces where it seem almost providential that they made their way to me, because their pathway to my possession was anything but straight and simple. Thank you, -William[/QUOTE]
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