Brienne Trunk

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The trunk was owned by Simon and Marie de Brienne, a high-achieving postmaster and postmistress duo who dominated the European communication landscape. A remarkable collection of 2600 undelivered letters, locked away across Europe, was discovered inside this chest, none of which were ever successfully delivered to its intended recipients. Learn more about the trunk's contents and significance. The trunk was digitally captured on May 6, 2019, at Sound and Vision in The Hague, Netherlands by Mark Mudge and Carla Schroer from Cultural Heritage Imaging. A three-dimensional model of the trunk was constructed using photogrammetry techniques applied to 235 high-resolution images taken with a Canon 5DSR camera fitted with a 24mm lens. This detailed model features 750 thousand faces without any smoothing, hole-filling, or manual editing. It was derived from an even more precise 3D model created from over 100 million data points in a dense point cloud.