museum

My passion for travel over a long period of time has enabled a collection of wonderous and exotic items to develop. This collection has been augmented by customers and friends. JB

wardrobe trunks

these items reflect the grand days of travel; a time when it was necessary to have servants to travel in style and luggage was labelled 'Wanted on Voyage'.

hat boxes

top hats, grand milinery, and day wear

dressing cases

gentlemans' and ladies' dressing cases

portmanteau

equivalent of today's hand luggage

cameras

Agfa, Leica to the Box Brownie

luggage and hotel labels

from the 1920s

click to see individual labels >

old luggage

from the 1920s

travel momentos

travel posters

crockery from early air travel days

lifebuoys

time traveller

Dr Rheinhold von Stindberg
by Cindy South Czabania, 1994
Dr Rheinhold von Stindberg is my shop mascot.
He oversees all our transactions and I am sure he comes alive at night when all is quiet and we have long gone.
Maybe this is when he travels in time, but he is always back by 9am. JB