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Luggage tag 1155317
Size: 16,5 x 6,5 cm
Materials: Vegan Apple PU leather
• Place for personal data
APPLE "SKIN"
Apple leather is made from the leftovers from the pressing of apple juice. The skins, stalks and fibres are ground into a fine powder. This is then mixed with organic pigments, polyester, polyurethane, cotton and viscose.
The end result is a material that is 40% apple & 100% vegan. It is a soft-touch alternative to natural leather of animal origin and we used it to make this luscious apple luggage tag.
It is estimated that between 25 and 30 million pieces of luggage are lost at airports each year (around 8 per 1,000). Unfortunately, only a few of these bags are returned to their owners.
The record belongs to American April Gavin, whose suitcase went missing during a short business trip to Chicago. Four years after the incident, April received a call from United Airlines telling her that her luggage had been found and was on its way back from... Honduras.
RETURNS AFTER YEARS
This is just one of the uplifting stories of items found years later. An angler, fishing at his favourite lake Attersee in Austria, fished out a fishing net. Entangled in the net was his own wallet, which had fallen into the lake 20 years earlier. An American professor happened to buy a used book on Amazon - the same one she herself lost five years ago. A garden-growing enthusiast found her wedding ring after 16 years - ingrown in a carrot.
CHEERS TO TIM!
Sometimes, however, an unfortunate misplacement can lead to something completely unexpected. London-based Guardian journalist Timothy Burrows lost his wallet at the Reading Festival in 2003.
The wallet was found by a group of young men who, before handing it over to the Lost and Found, "borrowed" £10. (A pun - Burrows sounds the same as "borrows").
They used this extra budget to buy cheap, strong White Lightning cider (hello, apples!). Since then, in honour of the event and the unwitting sponsor, the mates have met every year to compete in drinking strong cider in time. They called the competition the Timothy Burrows Drinking Challenge, a name that also became a catchphrase within the group - e.g. "I'm going to the pub, meet Tim Burrows".
After 14 years, one of the men decided to track down the wallet's owner. So he wrote to every Tim Burrows he could find on social media. With a successful outcome - he managed to contact the real Tim, apologise for the "loan" and tell him the whole story, which Tim, being a journalist, naturally published. The post went viral and competitions named after Tim Burrows sprang up all over the place. Timothy himself met up with his long-time "fan club" to enter a competition named after him. His new colleagues also returned the £10 he lent them 14 years ago...
(Tim Burrows at Reading festival, Image: The Guardian).
Set 2152094
Materials: Spectro recycled leather
• Includes passport case
• Contains luggage tag
• Paper box included
Set 2150094
Materials: Spectro recycled leather
• Holder for AirTAg
• Contains a keyring
• Contains luggage tag
• Paper box included
Set 2151094
Materials: Spectro recycled leather
• Holder for AirTAg
• Contains a keyring
• Contains luggage tag
• Paper box included
WHAT HAVE YOU FOUND?
Unclaimed Baggage, a US company based in Alabama, has been buying up unclaimed luggage from airlines for more than half a century. Some of the contents are donated to charity, while the rest ends up on shop shelves. They started with a small shop that quickly grew to the size of a supermarket. During the COVID 19 pandemic, the offer also appeared online. The most interesting finds make it to the collection of a small museum you can visit while shopping. And there is plenty to see there! Items include medieval armour, a space camera (which was sent back to NASA after a brief exhibition), an Indian peace pipe, a shrunken human head from Peru and much more. Worth a look at unclaimedbaggage.com!.