Yesterday evening we had a program "Posh Pawn" on our Channel 4, telling stories of real (rich or used to be rich) people in Surrey (a suburb near London) pawning things when they falling into hard times. One of them was a single mother of three with a croc Birkin which was gifted to her by an ex-boyfriend. She said "it looked like something an old lady would carry", and "don't know it's the real deal or not". She gave it to the pawn broker and they took it to a specialist. The specialist handled the bag so roughly I was about to scream! Anyhow, turns out it was the real thing! The owner had no idea how much it was worth and she was shocked when the pawn broker offered to buy it out right for £15,000.
