Veneered Traveling Chest with Drawers

Frederic Franck de la Roche was aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette during the Revolutionary War, and he may have used this chest during his service. After the war, Franck obtained American citizenship. He was also given membership to the Society of the Cincinnati, an order exclusive to Washington’s former generals and their descendants. He died in 1805.

The chest contains a variety of toiletries, including two razors with straps, a silver shaving pan, a wooden wig curler, a snuff box, a silver powder box, two Sheffield candle sticks, a comb, and a tooth polisher.