My first ever mulberry purchase a couple of years ago was an emmy off evilbay for about £50 - how naive! When it arrived i immediately thought it was fake as it was more orange than oak should be and smelled a bit funny. I scrubbed it with fairy (yes, sorry ladies) to try and make it smell better - that didn't work - convinced myself it was a fake and chucked it down the back of the cupboard - for more than a year - sad as hell.
After becoming much more experienced at looking at mulberries and particularly looking at bags in real life and in the authenticate this thread, I dug the emmy out again. I began to think it might actually be ginger rather than oak.... and checked for the riri and many other little things.
Emmy was knackered however, so i figured there is only one way to find out - send her off for repair (replacement handles)....
Well a big box turned up yesterday, with a sad old bag, but... a lovely letter. Repairs were willing to do the work and therefore Emmy is REAL!
I sat in front of the TV last night, plastering her in woly shoe cream - she came up all patina'd and it blended in all the grubby marks. Me, Dr Who, Emmy and the Woly are having another night in tonight. (and huge thanks to whichever of our wonderful ladies put me on to the woly stuff - it's magic!)
I promise a reveal once she's been nurtured a bit more. The only sad thing was that they didn't have any more ginger leather to replace her handles, so they still look grubby as things stand - but at least i know she's worth restoring!
After becoming much more experienced at looking at mulberries and particularly looking at bags in real life and in the authenticate this thread, I dug the emmy out again. I began to think it might actually be ginger rather than oak.... and checked for the riri and many other little things.
Emmy was knackered however, so i figured there is only one way to find out - send her off for repair (replacement handles)....
Well a big box turned up yesterday, with a sad old bag, but... a lovely letter. Repairs were willing to do the work and therefore Emmy is REAL!
I sat in front of the TV last night, plastering her in woly shoe cream - she came up all patina'd and it blended in all the grubby marks. Me, Dr Who, Emmy and the Woly are having another night in tonight. (and huge thanks to whichever of our wonderful ladies put me on to the woly stuff - it's magic!)I promise a reveal once she's been nurtured a bit more. The only sad thing was that they didn't have any more ginger leather to replace her handles, so they still look grubby as things stand - but at least i know she's worth restoring!
congrats on gaining a new bag
