Box Calf / Veau Box through the years #boxcalfnerds
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I am glad you are happy with your blue box k! It is gorgeous and looks in wonderful shape! Congratulations! I have a green box k28 and I think box and 28 are perfect for kellys. I am sorry I cannot help you with lock and key my early 70s k did not have either.
Absolutely lamsis, no H stamps on my 1949 and 1970 Ks locks.
The gold locks came with silver keys.
Here is a photo of the bags.
Yeah.... That is what the curator said. Before they shipped t to me, they reminded me that the the gold lock with silver keys. They reassure me that it is a genuine Hermes as in the early days. The gold comes with silver keys... I am happy to know that yours are the same. I love the blue box Kelly too... Just love it... A lot.
To be honest, I can't believe it is a 1972 bag, it is in very good conditions. My first Kelly and really love it. Just ordered the Saphir rnovateur, plan to polish it a bit, showing ,y appreciation to it. I name is as my Kelly sister, as it is older than me haha...
Have a good weekend, everyone
Collector Square is a very reputable site.
My Brown Kelly is two years older than yours and the lady who sold it to me took very good care of it too.
Congrats on your purchase, lamsit!
My BBK from 1974, blindstamp D
It looks so lovely! I wish to get a vintage Kelly fr 1974, my birth year
I would post in Docride's thread. It looks like finish cracking but impossible to tell for sure. Which year? It's after 1999 so awfully young for a bag to have such dryness. Also, have you had this bag authenticated?
Its year 2002. Ya been authenticated. My only concern is the dryness of the box. I worried it will crack after time.
I have to say, I don't like the cracking in a non-vintage bag (well, in any bag, but my box calf bags from the early 2000s don't show this - see first few posts in this thread. The finish on them is like new. My 1980 bag doesn't even have this. ) . It does look like finish cracks, not leather cracks (which cannot be fixed), but I've never asked H spa to fix something like this. I am not an expert on repair like this, but perhaps someone, especially Doc, can help you
Indeed, an expert told me once that some resellers actually pray paints on bags. And I can't agree with you more that the bag looks odd.
Agreed, that could be a coating, and oddly the straps are smooth. Again, unless badly treated, a 2002 box bag should not look like this. If anyone but bababebi authenticated it, I'd have it re-checked for possible non-H treatment and some other visible issues, and press the seller for details.
If the bag was retouched, and not by Hermès, then you cannot have it treated by Hermès in future. This isn't ideal for a box calf bag as the ability to restore these bags to a high level is one of their best assets. It also lowers the resale value considerably. That said, it looks sprayed, not retouched, which is frankly worse. Personally I would reconsider.