I could not help but take a photo…

We have had the visit of a Parisian customer who came to pick a large flat-top American trunk (100X50X55) and we were very surprised while helping him to load!!! A SMART car! ...

Well, it did fit in the car!

And here is the ancestral method that enables to place a nail on a trunk, in a perfectly solid way.

We remind you that a trunk is always built without any screw!

This is the Grail for any Vuitton collector: a trunk-bed is very rare and not easy to find…

For 10 years, the Musée du Bagage has been presenting one... a unique piece from 1868.

Well, we just found a second one!!

To the amateurs interested, we will put on sale a trunk-bed in 2012…
There will be one and only one…

The museum has two of them (one is for sale); the harp trunks are the largest trunks available on the market.

For example, when converted into a closet, they enable to store more than 3’000 CDs / DVDs.

This one will be auctioned during a sale of musical instruments.

Here are the photos of a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk, taken out of his attic by one of our customers.

The trunk is whitish, dirty. The brass hardware is oxidized.

The main challenge, in that case, is to treat that special canvas, used by Vuitton in the end of the 19th century.

The monogram is drawn by the weave of the canvas.
Cleaning can begin

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