CATEGORY 01
HANDBAGS
Flaps, totes, top handles and shoulder bags from Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Dior and Saint Laurent. One of each, all in the shop, all photographed as they are.
Grade is explained on the authentication page, and it is deliberately harsher than the market norm.
[ ten objects, six positions ]
NINE PIECES
SOLD
MCM
PATRICIA FLAP
SOLD
Red and white
03
BEFORE YOU CHOOSE
FOUR THINGS
WORTH KNOWING
01
CANVAS AGES DIFFERENTLY TO LEATHER
Coated canvas takes corner wear and keeps its shape. Untreated vachetta darkens and will never go back. Neither is damage. Both are accounted for in the grade, and both are shown in the photographs rather than described around.
02
A FULL SET IS WORTH ROUGHLY A TENTH
Box, dust bag, card and receipt add to what a piece is worth, and rather more to how quickly it sells. We list what is present and never imply what is not.
03
GRADE B+ IS NOT A WARNING
It means honest use, disclosed before you ask. A B+ bag from a house that made it properly will outlast an A-grade bag from one that did not. If something is structurally wrong we do not grade it, we decline it.
04
HARDWARE IS THE TELL
Plating wears at the corners and on the feet first. Those two places are in the slider on every bag, close, because they are where a photograph is usually cropped to hide something.