Battered Louis Vuitton storage box bought for £12 sells for 600 times more
02.08.2022 - 16:04
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A battered storage box bought by a dad for £12 at a junk shop 40 years ago has sold for more than 600 TIMES that price after it turned out to be a rare Louis Vuitton. The father purchased the vintage steamer trunk in 1984 for a pocket money amount which he then gave to his daughter as a gift as she was moving into her first flat.
He snapped up the trunk from a bric-a-brac shop in the village of St Margarets, near Twickenham, London, for his daughter Melissa to use as storage. Melissa, who is just giving her first name, went on to keep sheets and linen in the trunk for decades before eventually realising its true value.
She took it along to the Antiques Roadshow last year and was stunned to learn it was 100-years-old and worth thousands of pounds. The 56-year-old decided to sell the designer trunk to protect it from her rescue cats and was left stunned when it fetched almost £10,000 on Saturday (30 July).
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The item went under the hammer at Hanson's Auctioneers in London for £7,300 with the total amount paid with buyer's premium reaching £9,490. Melissa, an estates officer from Middlesex, said: “It was definitely a wow moment. It was very surreal and nerve-racking to watch.
"I was trying to video the laptop screen for my husband who was working but it was difficult to concentrate on keeping the phone steady. It was a fantastic result.
"I’m really happy that the trunk's journey is now going to continue and that it will be appreciated and looked after for many years to come. A big thank you to everyone at Hansons for all their help. Definitely an experience for the memory bank.”
Melissa, who has owned the trunk for