Vintage Hotel Miramar Kowloon Hong Kong Luggage Label

Description

Vintage Hotel Miramar Kowloon Hong Kong Luggage Label. Condition is "Used". Shipped with USPS First Class.
Opened in 1948 with only 32 rooms, the Miramar was Hong Kong's first post-war hotel.
It occupied the same land used by the Club De Recreio from 1911 to 1925.
The hotel had its first major expansion in 1953 when it added 160 new rooms, and was purchased by the Miramar Hotel and investment company in 1957 from a Spanish mission.
Over the years the hotel would change names and design, though maintaining much of its history.
In 2013 after fleeing Hawaii, Edward Snowden was a guest at the Miramar (now Mira) where he announced his leaked classified NSA documents.
In all of its 1950s styling this luggage label depicts period cars and guests outside of the Miramar.  The simple colors and design are staples of the decade.
There is a lot of detail in this label and I find it charming.  I also appreciate that it is a much later label, closer to when hotels phased out the use of luggage labels all together.
Sort of the end of an era.
While I will always gravitate toward the earlier luggage labels, I recognize that it is all subjective.
It's easy to fall in love with a Richter & Co from the early 20th century, but to me there is a place in every serious collection for the designs that came at the end of the luggage label era.
They tell a tale of hotels trying to hold on to the golden days of travel without realizing that they are missing the mark. In this label I sense more bustling and impersonality then I do relaxing destination.
A fascinating juxtaposition.
The top left corner has a fold and there is some rolling across the top.  None of which affect the overall integrity of the label.
Clean and large enough to be put up as a display piece.  Perhaps to chronologically bookend the latter half of your label collection.
What pleasure it brings me that you've stopped by ✌️