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Lot 390
A TRUNK IN NATURAL COW HIDE
LOUIS VUITTON, CIRCA 1904
Closed1 February 2011
Price Realised
GBP 10,625
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A TRUNK IN NATURAL COW HIDE
LOUIS VUITTON, CIRCA 1904
Leather and brass bound, with brass metal hardware and leather handles to either end, and wheels to the base, painted with green and white stripes and the monogram 'P.S.C. Lingfield
15 x 48 x 23 in. (38 x 122 x 58 cm.)
The lock stamped LOUIS VUITTON, PARIS, LONDON and numbered 017226, the interior labelled LOUIS VUITTON, RUE SCRIBE PARIS, NEW BOND STREET LONDON and numbered 135195
LOUIS VUITTON, CIRCA 1904
Leather and brass bound, with brass metal hardware and leather handles to either end, and wheels to the base, painted with green and white stripes and the monogram 'P.S.C. Lingfield
15 x 48 x 23 in. (38 x 122 x 58 cm.)
The lock stamped LOUIS VUITTON, PARIS, LONDON and numbered 017226, the interior labelled LOUIS VUITTON, RUE SCRIBE PARIS, NEW BOND STREET LONDON and numbered 135195
A TRUNK IN NATURAL COW HIDE
LOUIS VUITTON, CIRCA 1904
Leather and brass bound, with brass metal hardware and leather handles to either end, and wheels to the base, painted with green and white stripes and the monogram 'P.S.C. Lingfield
15 x 48 x 23 in. (38 x 122 x 58 cm.)
The lock stamped LOUIS VUITTON, PARIS, LONDON and numbered 017226, the interior labelled LOUIS VUITTON, RUE SCRIBE PARIS, NEW BOND STREET LONDON and numbered 135195
LOUIS VUITTON, CIRCA 1904
Leather and brass bound, with brass metal hardware and leather handles to either end, and wheels to the base, painted with green and white stripes and the monogram 'P.S.C. Lingfield
15 x 48 x 23 in. (38 x 122 x 58 cm.)
The lock stamped LOUIS VUITTON, PARIS, LONDON and numbered 017226, the interior labelled LOUIS VUITTON, RUE SCRIBE PARIS, NEW BOND STREET LONDON and numbered 135195
This trunk was taken by Pauline Spender Clay on her honeymoon following her marriage to one of England's richest commoners, Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Spender Clay.
The Hon. Pauline Astor was born in 1880 and was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor and Mary Dahlgren Paul. She married She married Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Spender Clay, son of Joseph Spender Clay and Elizabeth Sydney Jane Garrett, on 29 October 1904.
The Hon. Pauline Astor was born in 1880 and was the daughter of William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor and Mary Dahlgren Paul. She married She married Lt.-Col. Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Spender Clay, son of Joseph Spender Clay and Elizabeth Sydney Jane Garrett, on 29 October 1904.
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