Vintage Bags anyone?
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My Goodness what a find! I love that! I bet the interior is divine. I have a few with leather interiors and they are all so well made. Stunning!
Bring it closer I want to give it a very gentle non crushing hug. That flower! Look at it!
Hi there,
I've inherited a beautiful gucci bag from my grandmother and I'm trying to date it and find out what it'sworth. My guess is it's from the late 60s, but I have only seen one other one like it online and it was posted by papertiger back in 2011. I've copied the pictured that was attched to the original post (i'm talking about the one on the right, with the chain)
Any help, would be much appreciated!
Laura
I've inherited a beautiful gucci bag from my grandmother and I'm trying to date it and find out what it'sworth. My guess is it's from the late 60s, but I have only seen one other one like it online and it was posted by papertiger back in 2011. I've copied the pictured that was attched to the original post (i'm talking about the one on the right, with the chain)
Any help, would be much appreciated!
Laura
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Beautiful bag Carrelover!!!
The flower is prob not a brand, to me it looks like a typical motif that was popular in the mid-twentieth century and could be chosen if a lady preferred not to have her own monogram/initials/crest. This bag looks very Florentine in nature, and the city specialises in both the classic shiny leather and in jewellery. Makings like this can often be found etched on metal and jewellery boxes. Are there any other markings?
My Green croc (the one on the right) is from 1964
Here is a pic of Ursula Andress with her similar example from a couple of years later:
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These classic type of bags were not seasonal, changing only with limited skins and trends in colours, Gucci produced these bags for much of the 1960s.
Gucci have never done 'print' (embossed)* and therefore your bag would be real lizard skin as mine is crocodile (and the blue must look wonderful with the gold chain too). These very special Gucci bags are rare (as they were as expensive and difficult to procure, Gucci having only a few shops until the 1970s). If you don't have the original duster, please find a pure-cotton pillow case to store it and keep it safely (not squashed, in direct sunlight or in too humid/hot/cold climate)
*The only exception to the above info is a karung 'animalier' print that Tom Ford first used on a range of Gucci RTW in the 1990s and was re-issued 2013, for a range of RTW and matching accessories (including bags).
This Gucci vintage information thread may help you, perhaps if you have time, you could take some pics and specs to share your grandmother's beautiful bag (hint hint
). It would allow me to take a closer look and compare it with my own for a more specific datehttp://forum.purseblog.com/gucci/gucci-vintage-information-thread-660420.html
Thanks, Papertiger! Unfortunately, cant find any marking, tags, prints, anything on this baby. Such a mystery! I am crazy about the look and quality, especially the hardware. A very solid bag.
By the way, glad to have you back. You were missed
Thanks, Papertiger! Unfortunately, cant find any marking, tags, prints, anything on this baby. Such a mystery! I am crazy about the look and quality, especially the hardware. A very solid bag.
By the way, glad to have you back. You were missed
That's so lovely of to say
I didn't even congratulate you on all your other fabulous new-to-you bags, so congratulations on all, including your Bellstone (as you know I think that make is wonderful)
I think all you can say about the bag with the flower etched on the hardware is it's obviously a very good bag and something similar now would cost a small fortune.