Egisto Caverni, the son of Giuseppe and the brother of Raffaello, was born in 1868 at Montelupo, where he ran a factory for packing cases and small wooden frames. The factory, which was situated close to the River Pesa, suffered many floods, until the last one in the 1920s was so disastrous as to put an end to the factory and to force the family, therefore, to move to Prato, where most of their customers were based. The factory in Prato, which by then had passed to his son, was also destroyed by bombing in the Second World War and the carpentry business was converted to the finishing and dyeing of fabrics. It is thanks to Egisto, who, before anyone else went to Quarate, rushed there in a horse-drawn carriage to save the documents. It is also thanks to his direct descendants that the archive has been preserved, saved more than once from natural disasters and from the rampages of wars, and, despite some loss, has come down to us. Egisto Caverni died in Prato in 1948.