Cunard Line luggage tag
luggage tag
EPHEMERA2020.39-1A-20;7410-7491
Cunard Line
plastic, leather, paper, brass, steel
overall: 4 1/2 x 1 5/16 in.
Small Cunard Line luggage tag with a leather strap and steel buckle. The paper tag, with a place to enter an address, is inside a plastic cover. The cover is attached to the paper with a small brass rivet, but it folds back for filling out the address. A small leather strap with a buckle fits through a hole in both cover and tag. The front of the tag has an image of the AQUITANIA, with its four funnels, and the Cunard Line name below. Above the ship is written "World Renowned Services/ America/ Europe." On the back, the handwritten name "Mrs. M.R. Gay" is clearly visible, and the address "453 Ominica St. E, Moose Jaw, SASK" is very faintly visible. Marwood R. Gay, a railway engineer, and his wife Lillian lived at that address between at least 1922 and 1940. Lillian Gay, who was born in Exeter, England, seems to have gone back to visit several times, a long journey by rail from rural Saskatchewan before boarding a ship to England.
2020.39.7491