Furniture with history

I've always been fascinated by trunks.

At the Saturday marché this trunk was for sale at 100 Euros. I never want to part with money immediately, but we talked about where it would go and what it could hold.

Today we saw it again. The owner agreed to a 10 Euro-off price, one of the few times I ever bargained.

But then I bought his crayon table (what better for two writers) for 10 Euros.

The trunk is obviously well used and I've no idea how old it is. I wish it could tell me who owned it, where did they go. Did it ever sail on a ship? Ride in a carriage? What did it hold? Where did it go?

Of course a talking trunk would scare me but it could be a great trigger to a series of stories.