Posted 10 years ago
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Photos of the Top . Top tray Dyed purple To hide the original staining. The number of original stickers from High end hotels in Europe needed to be preserved.
They are as follows: Hotel Esplande Berlin built in 1908 for 23 million francs.Stars like charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo stayed there many times.
(3 stacked stickers)Hotel Carlton Canne est 1911 on Frech riviera National Historic building currently.Famous for hosting movie stars. Cannes film festival.
Grand hotel Hungaria Budapest (Ritz)est. Early 1900s One of the finest hotels.
Savoy hotel London.opened 1889 owned by Carte's Family for over a century.
Nord express est. 1886 Paris Trains to budapest and many others.
Victoria Station London stickers.Westminster
(Multiple Like 5)Norddeutscher Lloyd Zimmermann stateroom Stickers. est. 1857 ocean liner.
1White star line sticker
2Trains stickers from Buffalo N.Y.
2 shipping stickers from Liverpool to N.Y.
If this trunk could talk it would be more interesting than most humans Enough said! Fine example of a French trunk.
https://oceanlinerblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/famous-four-stackers-ss-kronprinz-wilhelm/
Check out this link to the golden age of steamship travel and realize just where and how these trunks traveled.
Awesome and with the stickers, really cool!
Nice!! I have a French cube trunk (hat trunk) that is covered in either alligator or alligator embossed leather. The manufacturer tag inside says DEPOSE'. I'll have to post it later and get you guys input on it. Yours is truly a nice trunk!!