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The page glues the hotel label to the guest trunks to create a communication system with the next hotel page.

Indeed, depending on the position of the label, it means, e.g. at the top left, "low or generous or demanding customer care..."

It was very clever to invent this secret method !

Find the trunks and their history: https://www.la-malle-en-coin.com/en/general-history1/general-history.html

The wardrobe are travelling...

Metal is one of the materials used to protect the angles of the trunks. On this trunk, we find the original material, cleaned and waxed. The steamer trunk is perfect as a console, to place your favourite objects in the entrance, the corridor...

Leather is the most noble material to protect the angles of the trunks. Vegetable leather is used for this. In fact, the cow’s skin is tanned, in a vegetable way, that is with bark and roots. This avoids the toxicity of chromium tanning. This leather is decorated and perforated, for the corners of luxury trunks.

Travellers in 1900 carried their luggage by porters. A Paris-Berlin trip took 20 days, so we left for months ! A family with 2 children left with about 50 trunks. Can you imagine what a work it was to manage the organization to store the clothes and all the business by the house staff...

Find the trunks and their history : https://www.la-malle-en-coin.com/en/general-history1/general-history.html