Gucci Vintage Information Thread

[papertiger]

I have been looking at vintag GAC bags and notice there are different logos. Some are gold on black in what appears to be resin, others just raised gold letters and some embossed leather. I have even seen just a leather oval stitched on with no embossing! (Authenticated by PT so it MUST) be real! )

My query is, does anyone know if the logo is linked to a paricular vintage/or time frame? What determines which logo is used?

Vintage GAC items do not equate to coated canvas. Strictly speaking, GAC (from 1979 onwards) are only bags and items that have 'Gucci Accessories Collection' written on the tags and these finished mid-1980s but Gucci Perfume Division (separate from Gucci main line) carried on selling canvas and leather trim small bags and items from airports, dept stores etc, though these are not marked GAC they are basically the same thing and provided the same function. Small luggage accessories, including small bags and lifestyle items from the 1970s including tennis-rackets covers and TV holders have different markings again and again and again. Gucci were forever changing markings and which ones there also depended on which item.

 

[WendyH]

Vintage GAC items do not equate to coated canvas. Strictly speaking, GAC (from 1979 onwards) are only bags and items that have 'Gucci Accessories Collection' written on the tags and these finished mid-1980s but Gucci Perfume Division (separate from Gucci main line) carried on selling canvas and leather trim small bags and items from airports, dept stores etc, though these are not marked GAC they are basically the same thing and provided the same function. Small luggage accessories, including small bags and lifestyle items from the 1970s including tennis-rackets covers and TV holders have different markings again and again and again. Gucci were forever changing markings and which ones there also depended on which item.

Clear as mud, as Gucci usually is! Thanks.

 

[papertiger]

I have been looking at vintag GAC bags and notice there are different logos. Some are gold on black in what appears to be resin, others just raised gold letters and some embossed leather. I have even seen just a leather oval stitched on with no embossing! (Authenticated by PT so it MUST) be real! )

My query is, does anyone know if the logo is linked to a paricular vintage/or time frame? What determines which logo is used?

Clear as mud, as Gucci usually is! Thanks.

A very good book is Gucci: The Making of . Not all info is in there but it gives an idea of how the signature/script/font/logos/plaques/charms developed from G.Gucci's beginnings in 1921 - 2012

 

[WendyH]

Thanks, I noticed you have recommended it before. It's on my shopping list! Fascinating history, this company. Your knowledge is amazing PT, I don't know where you find the time for all this, I am sure you have a life too!
-W

 

[swee7bebe]

A very good book is Gucci: The Making of . Not all info is in there but it gives an idea of how the signature/script/font/logos/plaques/charms developed from G.Gucci's beginnings in 1921 - 2012

That's on my wishlist on amazon.

 

[papertiger]

Thanks, I noticed you have recommended it before. It's on my shopping list! Fascinating history, this company. Your knowledge is amazing PT, I don't know where you find the time for all this, I am sure you have a life too!
-W

That's on my wishlist on amazon.

Oops, repeating myself :shame:

Life, what's life without a little Gucci?

 

[papertiger]

For Wendy, who asked the question about the Horsebit Cloth on outsides of bags.

The Horsebit Cloth comes from the 1970s, not only was it on bags but on silks and fabrics of all kinds including the famous shirt dresses worn with a self-tie or leather horsebit belt, it sparked a rage of horsebit prints across the high street copies too.

As already pointed out, this vintage print was revived as colourful linings of bags in the mid-2000s


Photo from seller spc_phones_4_cheap on e-bay

 

[WendyH]

Thanks PT! Hope you don't mind, I'll post the listing in the authentication thread. I'd appreciate it if you could take a good look at it for me, its such a pretty bag. Doesn't 'go' with what I have bought so far, but then I'm expanding..!

 

[papertiger]

Thanks PT! Hope you don't mind, I'll post the listing in the authentication thread. I'd appreciate it if you could take a good look at it for me, its such a pretty bag. Doesn't 'go' with what I have bought so far, but then I'm expanding..!

I'll answer you there too (that's certainly the correct thread) however, I wouldn't put a bag on here that I didn't know to be authentic

 

[WendyH]

Does anyone know if this bag would originally have had a zipper charm?

 

[papertiger]

Does anyone know if this bag would originally have had a zipper charm?

Most likely WendyH

Alas, I see a lot of the charms for sale separately on fleEby to make a few dollars extra

 

[ragsdals]

Great post. Thanks for sharing!

 

[jun3machina]

could anyone help me with more info on this bag? the seller had a few very old vintage gucci pieces...all i can find out is i think it's 1950's/60's...

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[papertiger]

could anyone help me with more info on this bag? the seller had a few very old vintage gucci pieces...all i can find out is i think it's 1950's/60's...

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Breathtaking, stunning, amazing!!!

It's certainly crocodile, (Vitta can prob tell whether it's Nilo or Porosus) and the hardware will be real gold-plated

It's like a cross between of 2 of mine (both 1960s) I can try to date it better from inside pics. If the clasp stone is tigerseye (hard to tell from this pic) then it's part of a series of late-1960s bags with semi-precious stone incorporated into their design. It would have had a matching/coordinating mirror.

 

[jun3machina]

Breathtaking, stunning, amazing!!!

It's certainly crocodile, (Vitta can prob tell whether it's Nilo or Porosus) and the hardware will be real gold-plated

It's like a cross between of 2 of mine (both 1960s) I can try to date it better from inside pics. If the clasp stone is tigerseye (hard to tell from this pic) then it's part of a series of late-1960s bags with semi-precious stone incorporated into their design. It would have had a matching/coordinating mirror.

yes, it is tigers eye! more pictures: