Louis Vuitton 'Damier' cabin trunk

An unusual pair of Art Deco, patinated bronze bookends in the form of stylized, stretching cats.

A matched pair of classically-styled Sterling silver ashtrays, each with three cigar rests and edged with an slim Art Nouveau style border and bearing Tiffa...

A very pretty Art Deco rose-tinted glass cigarette dispenser, the heavy glass lid with scalloped details to the edge lifts to reveal a tiered dispe...

Cartier, Paris An 18 carat gold tie clip in the form of a stylized 'Wedge' golf club, with twisted rope-style grip. Hand engraved 'Cartier Paris' to the reverse and twice struck w...

Goldsmith’s and Silversmith’s Company, hallmarked 1941 A fine and unusual novelty Sterling silver regimental table lighter, realistically modelled as a Mills ‘No.5’ grenade...

A modern, fully functional cigar humidor, the interior with modern humidified storage for cigars with four compartments and movable dividers, the exterior in faux-crocodile, with blo...

A well worn and well-used Vuitton Cabin Trunk from the Golden Age of Travel bearing the marks, tears and losses of a well-travelled piece. Worn label insi...

A wonderful brass bound Louis Vuitton LV monogram cabin trunk that is taller than usual and would be perfect as a coffee table. Comes complete with its original interior and tray. Th...

A well proportioned natural leather covered Louis Vuitton cabin trunk that has built up an attractive patina with age. Has original leather handles & brass fittings and has its original interior in-tact (including the original tray); Circa 1930. One of the original handle supports is a newly made replacement of the original, that was beyond repair. Provenance: From the collection of Anouska Hempel, noted interior designer, hotelier and taste maker. Dimensions: 91 cm/35⅞ inches (length) x 52 cm/20½ inches (depth) x 34.5 cm/13⅝ inches (height). About Louis Vuitton From humble beginnings, Louis Vuitton laid the foundations for a luggage enterprise serving the upper echelons of 19th-century society. His son, Georges, expanded on his father’s work throughout the 20th century. Louis Vuitton was born on 4 August 1821 in Anchay, a rural village in Eastern France. His father, Xavier Vuitton, was a farmer, his mother, Coronne Gaillard, a milliner. In 1835, aged 13, Vuitton left Anchay on foot for his two-year journey to Paris. He found work as a layetier – a maker of wooden boxes and cases for transporting travelers’ possessions – and was selected as the personal layetier to Empress Eugénie de Montijo, a Spanish Countess and wife of Napoleon III. In 1854, at 4 Rue Neuve de Capucines, Paris, Vuitton launched his enterprise, gaining recognition among Parisian nobility. A second Parisian store opened at 1, Rue Scribe, after the 1871 Siege of Paris. Striped “Rayée” canvas and the first Vuitton Wardrobe Trunk arrived in the 1870s, expanding abroad to 289 Oxford Street, London, and introducing the Damier canvas in the 1880s. Louis Vuitton passed...

A Louis Vuitton Cabin Trunk Constructed in wood and monogrammed canvas and edged with brass guards, triple hinged, opening to reveal a tan l...

This trunk was a special order made in 2000's. It features checkers canvas, or damier ébène and stamped LV solid brass locks, corners and studs. On the top is the leather handle, Lou...

Around the turn of the 19th and 20th century Louis Vuitton had established himself as a market leader in trunk making and needed to set his...