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About The Trunk Shop
We first became interested in trunks around 1975 or so. David and Pat went to see friend Norman "Smitty" Smith in Union, Maine. Smitty was an antique dealer, auctioneer, house painter, and misc. He was always messing around with antiques and he had a cut down round oak table. He cut the pedestal down to make it into a coffee table. Of course, many would think that sort of sacrilegious but Smitty was an experimenter. He also had a Civil War era trunk that he had refinished and we looked at that trunk and we looked at each other and knew then and there that was the way to go with trunks. The deteriorated leather covering had been removed. The steel straps were painted black. And the wood was a beautiful, mellow pine color. Today The Trunk Shop is located at 62 Canaan Back Road, Barrington NH and in Cyberspace. David's sister, Linda Edelstein and brother-in-law, Pat Morse, have been the owners for the past 10 years. The shop also carries a splendid array of antique lamps and mirrors. Hand wrought iron, small and unusual antiques, and a variety of 19th and 20th century artwork are some of the additional items we carry. The Trunk Shop is featured in the July 1997 issue of "Country Folk Art" in an article entitled "Traveling Heavy."
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ur founder,
David Edelstein, opened the Trunk Shop in 1979 by leaving the front door
of his street level apartment open displaying antique trunks and other
small furniture he had found and refinished. Ceres Street was just beginning
to attract tourists from all over the country with its fine restaurants,
its famous "Theater by the Sea", and its close proximity to the historic
village of Strawberry Banke. People often strolled down Ceres Street watching
the tug boats bring ships up and down the busy Piscataqua River. Many
people who came to watch the river traffic wandered into the store 
and
were impressed not only with the contents but by the craftsmanship and
respect for antiques. The Trunks Shop was located at 23 Ceres Street in
Portsmouth for over twenty years.
