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Lot 1512

Sale 5059 - Couture Sale
Dec 13, 2005 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000
Price Realized
$6,000
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

Large Louis Vuitton steamer trunk early 20th century

Fully outfitted; standing vertically and opening to reveal six graduated drawers with leather pulls on one side and twenty carved wooden hangers (and one straight trouser hanger) on chrome-plated fold-out bars, a felt-lined covered shoe box at the bottom. Covered in signature LV canvas with wooden slats and heavy brass hardware, printed leather-type "LV" trim; bearing the initials "G.D.W." and painted with double-stripe of light and dark green. Measuring approximately 43 1/2" W x 25 1/2" H x 21 1/2" D.

NOTE:
The color of the painted stripes on the trunk correspond to the colors George D. Widener's horse stables and racing silks. There is stong evidence this trunk belonged to him.

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