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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4253538, member: 5833"]This really surprises me since Sear's would ship all manner of things, including the big & bulky, and having a hope chest was such a 'thing'. Question is when did it becomes a thing?</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope chests were given to high school age girls for them to safeguard all the sheets, pillow cases, tea towels, etc., that they were embroidering in hope of their eventual marriage. I have my grandmother's hope chest, which is a more conventional, legless, cedar chest. My grandmother was born in 1896. If she was given it when she was about 16, that puts it to c. 1912. It has just occurred to me that it may have been handed down to her by one of her older sisters, of which she had 6. I find it hard to imagine that as the children of a small farmer each one of them would have had her own. But who knows. Maybe it was not such a fad when the older sisters were the appropriate age. There is no family story of its having been handed down from someone in the generation before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4253538, member: 5833"]This really surprises me since Sear's would ship all manner of things, including the big & bulky, and having a hope chest was such a 'thing'. Question is when did it becomes a thing? Hope chests were given to high school age girls for them to safeguard all the sheets, pillow cases, tea towels, etc., that they were embroidering in hope of their eventual marriage. I have my grandmother's hope chest, which is a more conventional, legless, cedar chest. My grandmother was born in 1896. If she was given it when she was about 16, that puts it to c. 1912. It has just occurred to me that it may have been handed down to her by one of her older sisters, of which she had 6. I find it hard to imagine that as the children of a small farmer each one of them would have had her own. But who knows. Maybe it was not such a fad when the older sisters were the appropriate age. There is no family story of its having been handed down from someone in the generation before.[/QUOTE]
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