Help with chest identification

[Vincent]

I found this old chest. Can anyone identify it?

TIA

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[Paul S.]

it looks like an antique carpenter's tool chest to me.

[Flying10uk]

Could well be a carpenter's chest although I would have expected the corners to have been dovetailed joints.

[Peter Laidler]

I suspect that the above replies are the answer. On a visit to the old dockyard at Portsmouth they have several variations of chippies, sparkies, fitters, shipwrights etc etc tool boxes all elaborately made by apprentices during their 'other trades' part of their apprenticeships. One of the ex-apprentices who was acting as a guide on the day (incidentally, another January 1963 starter like me) explained that the tool box you made was what the apprentice master told you to make. It did include all of the skills of course.

A bit like my day where you skeletonised things. Not necessarily to any particular drawing or spec but to illustrate a certain feature or features that the master wanted to see. It usually included a disaster zone whereby if you didn't think about it and do some sketches or discuss it with the group, you'd fall foul of slotting into an important piece ..... you know the sort of thing

[Vincent]

Thank you all.

When I got it was full of gun parts, Sten and Lanchester. I didn’t think of a carpenter’s chest.

[browningautorifle]

When I got it was full of gun parts, Sten and Lanchester.

I should have guessed...

[Vincent]

[Peter Laidler]

A box full of Sten and Lanchester parts........... I wouldn't be overly concerned about the box, believe me!

[browningautorifle]

A box full of Sten and Lanchester parts

Something that would have been in a corner of your shop in about 1975. Covered in dust and spiderleavin's...

[Flying10uk]

A carpenter's chest will, sometimes, have on the inside of the lid fittings/clips/etc for the purposes of attaching a wood saw while in storage within the chest. If these were on your chest originally they may well, of course, be removed by now but there may still be some "spare" screw holes on the inside of the lid.