Large travel trunk by the celebrated trunk maker Louis Vuitton in Paris, covered by the famous chequerboard canvas patented around the end of the 19th century. As indicated by his monogram painted on both sides, this trunk belonged to the adventurer and traveller Maurice Pescatore born in 1870 and dead on the SS Albertville in 1929 off Dakar on the way back from one of his many travels – expeditions. The manager of the Boch faience works in Septfontaines, he was a liberal politician for many years and a great sportsman and hunter who loved to travel around the world, especially in Africa, and then withdraw to “Scheidenhoff” in Sandweiler in his family property.
