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Hermès Kelly 32 Sellier Cavalcadour Toile de Camp Noir Swift Palladium Hardware
The Cavalcadour Kelly was produced exclusively as a 32cm Sellier between 2016 and 2018, offered to VIP clients.
The object record
- Condition
- 1 – Pristine
- Date stamp
- X (2016)
- Material
- Toile de Camp Canvas (body) and Swift (trim)
- Made in
- France
- Color
- Cavalcadour Print and Noir (89) leather
- Metallic finish
- Palladium
- Handle drop
- 10 cm | 4"
- Strap drop
- 105 cm | 41.3"
- Interior
- Chèvre
- Dimensions
- L 32 × H 23 × D 10.5 cm | L 12.5" × H 9" × D 4"
- Includes
- Full set
- Care
- Protect from humidity, prolonged light and extreme heat, and seek an appropriate assessment before treatment. Care Guide
The story behind the Kelly
Created in the 1930s by Robert Dumas as a women's bag with straps: a trapezoid with two triangular gussets, a cutout flap, a handle and two side straps. It took the Kelly name in 1956, when Grace Kelly made it famous. Sellier construction keeps the seams on the outside for a more defined outline; Retourné construction turns them inside for softer edges. The leather does not decide the construction: Box calf Kellys are recorded in both.
Discover Hermès Kelly BagsThe print derives from a Henri d'Origny design first issued in 1981, depicting equestrian straps and buckles running in multiple directions, printed here on Toile de Camp washed canvas. Each bag carries a unique print placement determined by where the canvas was cut, so no two examples match exactly.
Noir Swift leather forms the handle, trim, sides, and clasp surround, framing the printed canvas panels with the maison's smoothest fine-grain leather. Palladium hardware completes the cool register against the black trim. The bag carries a rear exterior slip pocket, a construction feature shared only with the Berline among modern Kelly editions.
Collector's Insight:
Among Hermès printed-canvas bags, the Cavalcadour carries one of the boldest and most colorful motifs the maison has put into production. Canvas editions occupy a distinct collecting category from leather Kellys, pursued for the archival print rather than skin or hardware, and the equestrian source design ties the piece directly to the house's saddlery origins.
Resale Insight:
Canvas Kelly editions trade as collector pieces rather than daily carry. The Cavalcadour surfaces infrequently on the secondary market and sits at the upper band of the printed-canvas Kelly set, where pricing tracks the print rarity and condition rather than the leather-and-hardware metrics that drive standard Kelly valuation.
Condition, defined +
Every piece is graded on the JANEFINDS five-tier scale: 1 Pristine, 2 Excellent, 3 Very Good, 4 Good, 5 Vintage, Well-Loved. Each tier is defined in writing in The Condition Guide.
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Every piece is authenticated in-house and individually inspected, and ships with a JANEFINDS Certificate of Authenticity.
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Returns +
This piece is final sale and is not eligible for return or refund. Full details in our Returns and Exchanges policy.
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The Condition Guide
