Vintage Highlights Top Handle Bags

Kelly bag in a very rare purple-pink color, calf leather with gold hardware. 4 side seams polished with pink leather pass and lined with pink leather inside! This is a special, cust...

HERMÉS KELLY BAG, (Made in France) Retourne, 32 cm, Boxcalf , Swift vert anglai, S in circel = 1989, gold hardware, coms with original dustbag from this time. Dimensions Hight 2...

Iconic Hermès Birkin bag 35 cm (Made in France) made of wonderful Barenia leather and canvas. Size: Height 26 cm Width 33 cm Deep 19 cm Features - Original Hermés b...

A beautiful black small Chanel bag (Made in France) made of black quilted calfskin 2 cm x 2 cm. The front and back of the bag are made of shiny black shearling. The bag has a small...

This timeless collectable from the 1950s is an oversized, eyecaticng statement piece that adds a hint of tastful clamur to any ensable. Suptous cut velvet - chenille fabric in mult-l...

A fun young bag from the USA with 2 handles made of printed velvet. It is lined with black rep on the inside, has a zipper and an open compartment opposite. It is located under the z...

The Origial Box Bag by Collins of Texas made of Mahagoni. The box is collared in an olive tone on the outside, the original natural wood tone on the inside. The front is hand painte...

A distinctive black handbag made of beautiful and well-preserved patent leather wich has a handle 30 cm long. The opening is 30 cm wide, the front and back of the bag have a 3 cm deep fold. Lined inside with black-white fabric and a side pocket with zipper. This generous bag comes form the USA, look the label inside. Measurement: Hight 30 cm , Width, at the widest point 38 cm, Deep 8 cm. Opening 30 cm, opening deep 10 cm The lacquer leather is in good condition, not lose it's glossery finish. The bag is inside clean, look the pictures. Patent leather is a type of coated leather that has a high-gloss finish. The coating process was introduced to the United States and improved by inventor Seth Boyden, of Newark, New Jersey, in 1818, with commercial manufacture beginning September 20, 1819. Boyden's process (which he did not patent used a lacquer coating that was based on linseed oil. Modern patent leather usually has a plastic coating. iding boot from 1910–20s In general, patent leather is a fine grain leather that is treated to give it a glossy appearance. An early reference to patent leather is in the 1793 British periodical The Bee, or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, which notes, in an article entitled "Hand's patent leather", that "a gentleman of the name of Hand" in Birmingham, England, obtained a patent for preparing flexible leather having a glaze and polish that renders it impervious to water and need only be wiped with a sponge to restore it to its original luster.[4] In November 1799, inventor Edmund Prior, of Holborn, London, England, received a patent for a method of painting and colouring all kinds of leather;[5] and, in January 1805, inventor Charles Mollersten, of Hackney Wick, received a patent for applying a chemical composition in the preparation of hides, skins, and leather to give "a beautiful gloss".[6] However, patent leather primarily owes its popularity to Seth Boyden. In 1818, Boyden received a piece of German-made patent leather (said to be a German military cap...