The Dan Sweeney Repulse Bay Hotel Set - Comprising a luggage label, a postcard, and a brochure (Circa 1930's)
Dan Sweeney
Cover Design by Dan Sweeney.
A collection of 3 pieces of Repulse Bay Hotel ephemera with the Dan Sweeney design - (from top to bottom) a folding brochure, a postcard, and a luggage label. Scarce as a set.
The Repulse Bay Hotel was opened in 1920 by Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels and ran until it was closed for demolition in 1982.
Born in Sacremento, California, Dan Sweeney (1880-1958) was an American illustrator best known for a series of luggage labels he designed for hotels in the Far East owned by Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotels in the late 1920s and 1930s. Luggage labels designed by Sweeney often incorporated careful and beautifully drawn images of the local people from the hotel destination, be it Hong Kong, Hanoi, Shanghai, Peking, or Manila.
Luggage labels by Sweeney are today highly sought after by collectors.
