Back to the original post, and drifting off the topic of heat, have a very similar trunk. Will post pictures later.
Brass fittings look the same. All I know of it is that my father had it in the 50s. It might have come down from his family or maybe from a house sale, we lived in Devon and he would occasionally buy things for next to nothing from country house contents auctions, not as investments but to use as there wasn't much money about. It served as a blanket chest. The trunk has no names or anything to identify it.
The joints are dovetails but not high quality, you can see the scribed marking lines so I wondered if it was an apprentice piece or a DIY to a bought design with standard brass fittings.
Do you know anything about them, or about the type in general?
