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Hermès Vintage HAC Birkin 50 Denim and Naturelle Vache Liégée Gold Hardware
$29,500.00
Hermès Vintage HAC Birkin 50 Denim and Naturelle Vache Liégée Gold Hardware
The Haut à Courroies is the oldest bag in the house, designed in 1892 to carry a saddle and riding boots, and the direct ancestor of the Birkin. This 1998 example pairs a Denim canvas body with Naturelle Vache Liégée at the flap, handles, sangles, and corners. Vache Liégée is a pressed cowhide with a distinct raised grain and firm hand, chosen historically for luggage because it holds structure and resists wear better than softer calfskins. In Naturelle it reads warm honey against the indigo twill.
At 50cm this is a genuine travel bag rather than a handbag, taller and deeper than any Birkin, and the canvas body cuts significant weight against all-leather construction at this volume. Gold hardware warms the utilitarian materials.
Condition: 4 – Good
Stamp: B □ (1998)
Color: Denim and Naturelle
Material: Denim and Vache Liégée
Hardware: Gold
Dimensions: 50 × 42 × 27 cm | 19.7" W × 16.5" H × 10.6" D
Collector's Insight:
Canvas-and-leather HACs at 50cm surface rarely, since large-format travel pieces were produced in small numbers and most that survive have been carried hard. Vache Liégée itself has largely left production, which fixes the supply of examples in this material permanently.
Resale Insight:
Large HACs trade to a narrow but committed pool: collectors of the men's universe, and buyers acquiring them as objects rather than daily bags. Condition 4 places this squarely in the honest-vintage tier, where buyers expect visible history and price accordingly rather than paying for presentation.
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