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The Proper Luggage

Top Hat Box and Ladies' Hat Box

Top Hat Box

Collapsible Top Hat Above Beaver Top Hat

Beaver Top Hat Still In Box, Morning Pop-Up Hat On Right

Both Silk And Beaver Top Hats Liberated

Great Viennese Hatmakers

Edith Wharton's inscription

1862 Version

Perrault's Fairy Tales Illustrated By Gustave Doré, 1862. Originally belonged to Edith Wharton

Edith Newbold Jones aka Edith Wharton glass and silver plate desk box from Gorham's NY

Edith Newbold Jones aka Edith Wharton monogram

Edith Newbold Jones aka Edith Wharton box side view

This cube trunk and leather case for necessities belonged to American Author Edith Wharton.  The Top hat box and white hat box belonged to her close friends.  The book is one of hers from her childhood.  She inscribed it to her favorite little boy over half a century later.

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Latest comments

16.10 | 01:54

I have this painting are you interested.

24.03 | 21:16

https://twitter.com/Pascale_Palmer/status/1507103834270801922/photo/1

21.10 | 19:12

Please do!

21.10 | 19:12

Beautiful! I love it. It ties in with his description of his childhood.

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