Suitcase

suitcase

CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES - PERSONAL GEAR
befoe 1930
leather; textile; metal
overall: 5-3/4 x 22 x 13 in.

Suitcase owned by Everett St. John; black leather with hinged lid, handle and 2 metal closures; removable tray inside; gray printed fabric lining inside and around tray; red painted initials on front "ST. J."; 2 green diamond shapes on each side of lid; hotel and steamship stickers on outside, include: Grand Hotel, Charing Cross, Glasgow; Stadshotellet, Sweden; Cunard Line baggage labels, second class; Grand Hotel Haglund, Annex Hotel Savoy, Goteborg; Canadian Pacific Line; Southampton baggage label; Hotel Memling, Grand Place, Bruges; Hotel Phonix, Copenhagen; Skiddaw Hotel, Keswick-on-Derwent, England; Hotel Anglais, Stureplan, Stockholm; Canadian Pacific Steamship address label with handwritten information for Mr. Everett St. John, SS DUCHESS OF RICHMOND, sailing date 22 Aug '30[?], Room 240[?], to Montreal, Canada. St. John lived Darien, CT; invented a cleat.

2005.98