Go for the 1969 Gucci, the colour is goegeous, the clasp is real lapis and altogether the bag is just so special - like the rest of your wardrobe
like gixxer_617 said, is she from the late 60s? 
papertiger!!! glad that you are here!
1969 gucci!!??
i know this gucci isn't current design and she is kinda different (comparing to other gucci croc),but i didnt know she is even older than me!!!
please tell me more if you know anything about her! i'd love to know!
this little beauty is over 40 years young, I have her 'poorer' black patent and lapis cousin from the same year. Gucci made these semi-precious stone and thickly gold plated bags for only a couple of years before more International commercial expansion plans and the increasing casualness of fashion took over (as you know Gucci became the byword for 70s laid-back luxe, with hobos and shoulder styles, the Britt, first designed in 1973 and popularised by Britt Ekland in the Man with the Goldern Gun (James Bond) using her own Gucci bag meant these PROPER handbags fell from favour (so much so Hermes was deserted). You can be sure the red Gucci was handmade from beginning to end in Florence, when Florence and not Paris was fine shoe and handbag heaven. 
I like the Celine too, Celine would have still been an Inderpendent niche fashion house in those days but this example looks 20 years younger than the Gucci. Any handmade croc is a classic (I have a brown croc Gucci) and for most people I would say they would get more wear out of a plainer brown ghw croc day or night, for you though, I think you were made for the dark red Gucci - anytime because the rest of your wardrobe is extraordinary - a new Daphne G in the making
