I am restoring this Murphy chest for a gift and wondering what year it was made.
Thanks.
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I know more about the Lane's than the Murphys. If I remember correctly, they made the chest from the late 1940s to the early 2000s, and I believe the company is still around.
Perhaps they can help you understand their numbering system. Most numbering systems I am familiar with the last 2 digits are the year...so if that is the case here, this would be from 1973, I have not found anything to prove that with the Murphy's however.
This is the contact info I found:
www.manta.com/
Please post back what you learn!! I am very curious!! Always looking to learn more about neat old items!! Thanks!
This looks to me like it was made in the 1940s. Make sure any restorations do not take any value away from the piece.
I'm not sure of the year this chest was made but I agree that it seems to be a style from the 40-50s because the heavy ornamental styles changed to more simple lines in the 60s and later.
I have seen Murphy cedar chests in older catalog advertisements from the 60s and the chests were very plain.
There is very, very little information about the Murphy Manufacturing Co available - not even on Wikipedia - so dating these chests may have to be done from personal knowledge or from older company catalogs that are sometimes found on eBay.
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