Vintage Cedar Chest Made By The West Branch Novelty Company, Milton, Pennsylvania

Vintage cedar chest with hinged lid and single lower drawer.
Chest measures 45" W x 19" D x 28.5" H

The West Branch Novelty Company was established in 1893 by Marshall Reid, F. S. Chapin, H. R. Frick and George C. Chapin. Three years after the company was incorporated in 1910, the cedar chests made by the company had become the most important single line of merchandise produced. Production of bamboo furniture was gradually reduced and finally, after the war, discontinued entirely so that all plant facilities could be devoted to the making of chests. During the First World War the plant interrupted its regular production schedules to make boxes for the shrapnel shells and toxic gas shells which were being manufactured then by the American Car and Foundry Company here and by the Milton Manufacturing Company. Materials used in the chests were obtained from all parts of the world. The cedar came mainly from southern states, but some of the hard veneer woods used on the exterior of the chests came from Africa, Australia and some countries of Asia. The finished chests were marketed in all parts of the world, but the principal market was in the United States, east of the Mississippi. They were usually sold through department stores, and West Branch chests could be purchased in all leading department stores of the nation. miltonhistory.org

Notes: Wear evident due to age. See photos for condition report.

Fair

Furniture, Storage

18%

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Yonkers, NY 10705

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