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Hermès Kelly 20 Mini II Sellier Gris Misty Epsom Electrum Hardware
$35,000.00
Condition 1 – PristineSellier construction assembles the bag with edges facing outward and seams exposed, producing the rigid, architectural profile the format favors.
The object record
- Condition
- 1 – Pristine
- Date stamp
- K (2025)
- Material
- Epsom
- Made in
- France
- Color
- Gris Misty
- Metallic finish
- Electrum
- Handle drop
- 7 cm | 2.75"
- Dimensions
- 20 × 12 × 6 cm | 7.9" × 4.7" × 2.4" · Handle Drop: 4.4 cm | 1.7" · Strap Drop: 47 cm | 18.5"
- 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 BagsEpsom's pressed grain amplifies the effect, creating clean planes that catch light uniformly across the surface. At 20 cm the geometry holds especially tightly, with every element of the full-size design scaled down without simplification: sangles, tournant, cadenas.
Gris Misty sits between warm and cool gray, reading almost silver under certain light. Lighter than Gris Perle, with subtle blue undertones that separate it from warmer neutrals like Étain. Electrum is Hermès's two-tone gold-palladium configuration, with the touret and rivets in gold and the plaque, sangles, pontet, feet, clochette, V-hook, and strap clasps in palladium. The finish appeared briefly in the late 1980s, went dormant for decades, and was quietly reintroduced in late 2024 on select Kelly 25, Mini Kelly II, 24/24, and Cinhetic production. K stamp places this at 2025, within the first full year of the reintroduction. Hermès hardware code CT.
Collector's Insight:
Electrum production is tightly restricted to select styles and specific color pairings. The two-tone finish is not offered across the broader catalog, which makes any Electrum bag a documentation point for where Hermès chose to allocate the hardware. Mini Kelly II in Electrum is among the most constrained applications because the model's own allocation is already tight. Gris Misty is a newer cool neutral in the Hermès palette, and its pairing with Electrum sits in the quieter end of the specification range, away from the louder Electrum colorways that tend to be requested first.
Resale Insight:
Electrum examples trade at a premium over standard Palladium or Gold Mini Kelly IIs because the hardware is a secondary allocation constraint on top of the model itself. Early reintroduction-year production (2024-2025) is the first modern Electrum window collectors are tracking, and provenance on these pieces will matter going forward. Pristine K-stamp with full set is the strongest forward-resale profile for the specification.
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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