Comments on: Vintage Travel Labels

Vintage Travel Labels

jonson — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:29:09 -0800

761 Vintage Travel Labels fans of art deco & european pre-war design, look no further.

By: amyms

amyms — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:26:28 -0800

Wow, what a great collection!

By: niles

niles — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:38:50 -0800

Great find.

By: furtive

furtive — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 16:46:06 -0800

I always thought those were a gag. Who actually used them? It appears to be mostly hotels from your sample, but I always had though it would be customs/immigration or airlines. Does anyone still use them?

By: Liosliath

Liosliath — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:33:00 -0800

Sweet, the first one is Ceuta!

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 17:40:34 -0800

Love travel & love the vintage designs! Cool collection! :) People definitely used to use them. To quote this site: "...Most noteworthy are the luggage labels issued by the world's hotels, and airlines. Their original use was purely functional and hotels and steamship lines used them to connect luggage with their owners, to its method of transport and finally to its hotel of destination. Later, they became fashionable objects of conspicuous consumption – identifying the owner as a well-traveled and possibly cultured person of means." Foreign tour companies definitely still use tags to quickly identify their clients' luggage for transport, but they usually attach a printed tag to the handle with elastic instead of slapping stickers on people's bags. Unfortunately, the tags nowadays aren't 1/1000th as cool or beautiful as they used to be, so they're nothing to save... they just have a lame company logo on them or something. Bleh.

By: louie

louie — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 18:13:09 -0800

By: melkozek

melkozek — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:25:58 -0800

Today we have the little horsey guy from Polo, an alligator, etc. that we use to show our "status". This collection is very cool.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:26:20 -0800

Sweet post, jonson. Thanks.

By: dhammond

dhammond — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:27:09 -0800

Later, they became fashionable objects of conspicuous consumption This reminds me of those jackasses at my middle school (it was private) that used to leave their ski lift tickets on their winter jackets, months and years after having taken said ski lift. Do people still do that?

By: Brittanie

Brittanie — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:33:04 -0800

As a kid, I always wanted to have a hard-shell suitcase covered in these.

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 19:34:14 -0800

I will clean yer toilets for a year because this post is sooo excellent!

By: niles

niles — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:07:27 -0800

dhammond: Yes. Unfortunately.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:02:43 -0800

I always wanted one of those too, Brittanie. About eight years ago I found an AMAZING one at the Rose Bowl Swap Meet & fell in love with it... up until I picked it up and realized that, while still empty, it weighed as much as a pre-teen child.

By: luriete

luriete — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 21:10:50 -0800

[this is good]

By: ironisokratic

ironisokratic — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 01:26:42 -0800

Years ago, I bought an old suitcase and copied many of these labels onto sitcker paper and stuck them all over it. But the result was too nice for real travel so the suitcase just sits around for show...