I still think about when the circus came to town once a year. Posters glued to walls promised elephants, fire breathers, acrobats — and always clowns. Looking at the trunk feels like it was there backstage, stuffed with costumes and props, head to the www.garagesale.es site) waiting for the show to begin. When I first laid eyes on the circus clown trunk, I just stared. The hand-drawn clown staring upside down across the front felt like more than decoration. It felt like a piece of a lost world — a travelling circus.

Chests aren’t just places to keep things. They’re keepers of journeys. Before plastic tubs filled every house, trunks were the way people travelled. Built solid, heavy duty, sometimes decorated with brass corners or painted lettering.