These web templates are static files and can't be used with a CMS like Wordpress. All of these templates are created using valid, W3C-compliant HTML and CSS code and are very useful for beginners looking to understand how to build a website from scratch. These are all of our free website templates submitted by our awesome designers. Free web page software. They are free to use for any purpose (just check the licence type) and if you'd like to remove the credit link in the footer, it's always nice to contact the template designer first to make sure it's okay with them. Q:I have a Lane hope chest that my mother got in 1938. It's marked inside 'Altavista Va.' With serial number 112331 and style number 48388X. Can you tell me when the chest was made? A:John Lane bought a box plant in Altavista, Va., in 1912. His son, Ed Hudson Lane, soon began making cedar chests in the factory. The business was incorporated as Standard Red Cedar Chest Co. During World War I, the factory was converted to wartime production and made ammunition boxes. In 1922 the name of the company was changed to The Lane Co. The Lane family continued to operate the business until 1986, when Interco took over the company. Lane is now part of Furniture Brands International. The serial number indicates that your chest was made on Nov. There is a recall on locks on Lane chests made before 1987. The lock on your cedar chest should be replaced because a child could get trapped inside and suffocate. Contact the company via its website, www.LaneFurniture.com, and you will be sent a free replacement lock. Product Serial Number SearchTo locate the serial number on a Lane product, look on the law label, the customer reference label, the fabric description hang tag, inside the front base rail or on the side of the shipping carton. You typically find the serial number in several places, as stated by Lane. Just to follow up about my blog post yesterday about my I wanted to remind/inform people that if you have a Lane or Virginia Maid brand chest made 1987 or earlier, the lock needs to be replaced. My mom still has her Lane hope chest from the 50's and she got her lock replaced a long time ago (Lane will send out a free replacement). Too many kids were crawling inside and getting themselves locked in - with tragic results. Lane estimates there are still 6 million chests out there (occasionally showing up at yardsales etc) - that need replacement locks. So I called today to get a free lock replacement. Here is Anyhow, I talked to a customer service person who explained how to determine the age of some of the older Lane cedar chests. If you need info on how to determine the age of your Lane cedar chest - you should call customer service at Lane and see if they can help you too. Mine has a birthday of April 15, 1967. Above is a picture of the serial # (style #). To determine the age, work backwards from the Serial #. Take the last two numbers (40) - reverse them and you have 04 - for April - the 4th month of the year. The next two numbers (51) get reversed to 15 - the 15th of the month. The next two numbers (76) get reversed to 67 - meaning 1967. The first number - #2 - just represents which plant # it was made it. So there you have it - 04/15/67. Anonymous said. Thank you for sharing the recall information in this post. I know the post is old, but my child died just 6 weeks ago in our family hope chest. The hope chest had been past down through three generations and none of us heard of this recall. I learned to late! Our Lilly crawled in to play hide and seek but she wasn't found in time. Please tell everyone you know about these hope chests! Save a life, 6 million are still at risk! I am so sorry to hear this. What an awful tragedy. I am deeply saddened by your loss. When I was six, I locked myself in my mom's cedar chest. I was in there for awhile, screaming and banging. Thankfully my aunt, on her way to bed, heard me. Everyone else was still downstairs. My mother purposely broke the lock after that, and years later, my sister and I had cedar chests too. My sister's was from the 50s and mine was from the 60s; we purposely broke the locks on those too because of what happened to me. Regarding the replacement locks, which I would love to get; I have my mother's chest (the one I was locked in)and I would love to have a lock on it again, that is safe. I know it is from the 40s but I think my serial number and style must be on the bottom and there is no way I can turn this big thing over! I am going to call to see if I can get a lock without the numbers; I can send pics of my cedar chest. I recently purchased a Lane Chest made by Knechtels limited, Hanover, Ont. They style N044215 Serial NOK121135. The example you gave for determining the age doesn't work with this serial number. Would anyone know how old it might be? There is a Canadian copy right of 1931 and 1935 burnt into it. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. My serial number is 043028 whats the date on that lane cedar chest said.
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