Mark Twain’s much-travelled trunk on offer at Heritage Auctions

This sturdy-looking ‘stagecoach trunk’ accompanied the great American writer Mark Twain on a great many of his travels. It will be offered for sale at Heritage Auctions in New York on March 8 where the starting bid is $25,000.

Probably acquired in 1867, while he was living in St Louis, Missouri – home town of J Barwick, the m…

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