Vintage Hotel Malherbe Skeleton Room Key with Metal Fob
- Caen, Normandy, France
- Room #204
- Heavy metal fob measures about 2-1/2" high x 2-3/4" wide base x 7/32" thick
- Key measures about 3-1/2" long
- Key is a Fichet-Bauche security lock manufacturer product
- Exact year of key is unknown and there is contradicting information about the history of the hotel. Hotel records indicate the building was constructed in 1950, whereas postcards of the hotel exist claiming to be from the 1940s.
- If postcards are correct, hotel would have existed on D-Day's first wave of allied invaders on the beaches of Normandy during WW2
Key and fob are in vintage used condition with signs of use, age and years of storage.