ANON. Cairo Metropolitan Hotel.
Original Hotel luggage label, printed by Richter & C. Napoli, c.1929. 125 x 95 mm.
The Metropolitan Hotel began life as the Grosvenor Hotel in the 1920's. It was designed by the Italian Architect Alfonso Sasso.
In 1929 the lease was purchased by Egypt's premier Hotelier Charles Baehler who did his own refurb and reopened the Hotel as the Metropolitan Hotel.
It is now known as the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
First issue. Very rare.
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