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A black natural leather Hermès Birkin bag when had by starlet and style symbol Jane Birkin cost Sotheby’s for $2.8 million. The public auction, hung on December 5 at the St. Regis Saadiyat Island Hotel in Abu Dhabi, belonged to a four-day public auction and consisted of purses, jewelry, watches, autos and various other deluxe items.
The bag is called Le Birkin Voyageur, called after a note composed in silver ink on the natural leather within, which births an engraving Birkin created at a 2007 charity public auction for the International Federation for Civil Rights. It reviews in French: “Pour la FIDH dans le monde entier … Mon birkin bag qui a trip avec moi dans le monde entier … Love Jane B.” (English translation: “To the International Federation of Civil Rights around the globe … my Birkin bag, which takes a trip with me around the globe … Love, Jane B.”) Under the indoor pocket flap, Birkin about describes a reclining women naked. The bag has actually remained in personal hands because that public auction.
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Le Birkin Voyageur offered well over its quote of $240,000 to $400,000, and although it cost $2.8 million, it was well listed below the record-breaking $10 million public auction cost of an initial Hermès Birkin bag, likewise evaluated Sotheby’s this summertime. The model was offered to Shinsuke Sakimoto, chief executive officer of deluxe items representative Worth Holdings Inc. The bag likewise has a humanitarian background. Birkin offered it in 1994 to money AIDS research study.
Le Birkin Voyageur was just one of 4 “substitute” bags offered to her by Hermès after contributing the initial Birkin bag. According to Sotheby’s, this was Birkin’s “day-to-day” bag from 2003 to 2007. “She used it, enjoyed it, and it was full of ordinary however valuable products from her life.” Actually, the problem record validates that the thing remains in great problem. The lock, secrets and coming with bell (the tiny natural leather bag that holds the secrets) are all missing out on, and the equipment and natural leather are greatly put on and scraped. Morgane Halimi, international head of purses and style at Sotheby’s, claimed: “This is not simply an item of style background, however a deeply individual art piece from a social and style symbol whose heritage will certainly remain to influence individuals.”
