Chest
Category
Furniture
Date
1900 - 1930
Materials
Camphor, brass
Measurements
39.5 x 84 x 41 cm
Place of origin
England
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Sunnycroft, Shropshire
NT 1318214
Summary
A brass-bound camphor chest, English, early 19th century, a brass carrying handle to either side, the lid front with flush-set handle and the lower section with brass square lockplate.
Provenance
Sunnycroft was built in 1880 for J.G. Wackrill, founder of the Shropshire Brewery. It was bought in the early 1890s by Mary Jane Slaney who proceeded to extend the house and lay out the grounds to create the estate that is there today. After Mary Slaney died in 1912 the property was bought by her brother-in-law John Vernon Thomas Lander. Three generations of the Lander family lived at Sunnycroft. J.V.T. Lander's granddaughter Joan bequeathed the estate to the National Trust in 1997.