Re: Captain Flint's box was travels.


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Posted by Owen Roberts on November 29, 2006 at 12:34:22 from 195.92.67.74 user OwenRoberts.

In Reply to: Re: Captain Flint's travels posted by David Shelton on November 29, 2006 at 07:49:05:

"I'll go further! I think there is evidence it wasn’t his father's!"

- We don't know, but I only suggested as a possibility because trunks are frequently handed down from generation to generation. Usually the initials are repainted with each successive generation.
I am not sure that I would mention the loss of my own 3rd generation trunk, if I had lost something of greater value from inside it.

Are we right in calling it a trunk?
In SA, Nancy refers to it as a cabin trunk, but CF always seems to refer to it as a box.
It would be kind of Ed to check this out if he could, please?

Certainly in the picture in SA of Titty and Roger finding the box, it looks more like a portmanteau than a trunk. It would be interesting to know if Clifford Webb or Steven Spurrier drew similar pictures and what type of box they illustrated.

Perhaps we have been misled by Christine Hardyment's alliterative title of "treasure trunk"?



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