'Totally in love with these,' one person raved.

This handmade wooden trunk has a hinged wooden lid, a metal keyhole plate, and rope handles on the sides. The top and front of the trunk are decorated with hand-painted red and white tulips and roses.

WHEN Emory Wildasin spots an old wooden trunk, chances are he’ll soon pack it up and take it home. He’s not a traveling man. He’s a restorer of old trunks. Wildasin scrubs away decades of grit and ...