IN THE MANNER OF EDWARD SMITH, SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Leather trunks remained relatively unaltered in form from the reign of Charles II through the reign of George II. Between 1750 and 1760, George II's coffer-maker, Edward Smith, supplied both the king and various members of the court with a large number of trunks covered with Russia leather (P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev.ed., 1954, vol. II, p. 17).