The purpose of a hope chest was to collect small, useful items for the bride-to-be Historically, these chests were referred to as a dowry chest You don’t hear or see much these days in the U.S. about ...

Andrew Brunk appraises a 1810 Folk Art Painted Chest. Andrew Brunk appraises an 1810 Folk Art Painted Chest in ROADSHOW's 2008 trip to Baltimore, Maryland.

Q. The enclosed picture is of a trunk I was given by my father. It is from Norway with the year 1841 inscribed on it. It is from my father’s birthplace in Norway. Can you give me an idea of its value?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LA GRANGE, Ill. — It started with a small ...

The Lane hope chest in which a young Franklin brother and sister were trapped and died Sunday was made in 1939, one of the years that the Virginia company made chests that were later recalled due to ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an intricately decorated blue room, interpreted as an ancient Roman shrine known as a sacrarium, during recent excavations in central Pompeii in Italy. The Italian ...

A family in Massachusetts is reeling after two of their children, ages 7 and 8, died after climbing into an old hope chest, which slammed shut and locked, suffocating them inside. The chest was made ...