3/16/10 ARCHIVE: Authenticate This Hermes Bag

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Item: Kelly 32 cm
seller: encherexpert_paris05
link http://cgi.ebay.fr/VINTAGE-SAC-A-MA...MainFemmes?hash=item3caa405e38#ht_3278wt_1130
item no: 260554382904

comments: there is one thing that puts me off, but I'm no expert and I want to doublecheck. Leather is dry but if it stays at that price this bag could make a nice DIY restoration project à la Docride


MAryg1, I do not think this is a good bag to buy. The handle is dead. Meanning if you have a new handle made at Hermes, your bag will look unbalanced because the body is too floppy and too vintag-y... If I may say so.
I would wait for the right one.It will come ...;)

oops! It is authentic. Including the lock if that was your concern.
 
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MAryg1, I do not think this is a good bag to buy. The handle is dead. Meanning if you have a new hadle nade at Hermes, your bag will look unbalanced because the body is too floppy and too vintag-y... If I may say so.
I would wait for the right one.It will come ...;)

oops! It is authentic. Including the lock if that was your concern.

thank you! my main concern was the handle, it looked much longer than usual.
 
thank you! my main concern was the handle, it looked much longer than usual.

That handle looks very bad, I agree... but not sure it is not original. I think it is original but the inside part is broken and the outside stretched with time because the bag was too much loaded. Or : it was already replaced by a non Hermes craftperson and the result is anyway that you'd have to get a new one...

Let's put it this way : the body of the bag is authentic !
 
I bought a fake scarf from encherexpert. Discussed in the seller's thread. I know you're judging the bag, not the seller, but I thought it should be mentioned.

Item: Kelly 32 cm
seller: encherexpert_paris05
link http://cgi.ebay.fr/VINTAGE-SAC-A-MA...MainFemmes?hash=item3caa405e38#ht_3278wt_1130
item no: 260554382904

comments: there is one thing that puts me off, but I'm no expert and I want to doublecheck. Leather is dry but if it stays at that price this bag could make a nice DIY restoration project à la Docride
 
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