My Pirates Chest

[Gypsy Heart]

This was a winter project...Trunk had been sitting in my mothers attic since about 1900....was totally brown with rust from the humidity....
So I hauled it home and worked on it over the winter....The roses stamped into the tin are just beautiful...After painting it, I hand painted all the hasps,metal work with pure copper paint. Now I have something to put all my plundered booty in!

 

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[The Seeker]

WOW....That is one nice Pirate chest.....I just hope it's big enough to hold your Pirate Booty !!!!! haaaaahahah...lol Nice !!

 

[Gabbit]

think you can fit in there?? really cool chest!

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Are you all trying to tell me something?

 

[Gabbit]

Are you all trying to tell me something?

Sorry ? goes back to a daydream about a contortionist in circus ? you really don?t want to hear the rest of the story

 

[SHERMANVILLE ILLINOIS]

Gypsy,

one heck of a trunk.

have a good un............

 

[Postalrevnant]

I don't know how I missed this post. That is one beautiful chest. Great job on fixing it up. Perhaps you will be good enough to show us your booty sometime?

Postalrevnant

 

[RON (PA)]

Gypsy,
You did one heck of a job fixing up an old trunk. You did a super job.

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Thanks Everyone ...Here is the one I am working on now....Its beautiful....has five different wooden compartments for the inside.....

 

[ashleen]

I love it! The tin is awesome!
I have 3. But nothing as nice as that, and none have any of the compart pieces.
Make sure we see it when it's done

 

[bogeymcq]

Goregous!

Love love chest & you have made them POP even more with your touch!
On the first one . . does it have compartments as well? Curious to what selected treasures you are going to store in them for I see you have keys & are working on a Ghost Town. . correct

Bogart

 

[Gypsy Heart]

Goregous!

Love love chest & you have made them POP even more with your touch!
On the first one . . does it have compartments as well? Curious to what selected treasures you are going to store in them for I see you have keys & are working on a Ghost Town. . correct

Bogart

Thank You. Yes it does have compartments...like trays that set into it. I am covevering the inside was well with antique wallpaper.
I do collect old keys and recently started collecting button hooks,the pretty girly kind.
The ghost town is a work in process.

 

[OU812]

The first pics are they what the trunk looked like
And I presume the others are after you took it apart?

 

[A2coins]

Thats is realky freakin cool I want one

 

[Hawks88]

Nice chest. You did a fantastic job painting the first one. I really like it. You’re definitely good at what you do.

 

[Peyton Manning]

You dudes see that this is twelve years old , right?