A Louis Vuitton Encyclopaedia Britannica library trunk, 1911,
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A Louis Vuitton Encyclopaedia Britannica library trunk, 1911,
canvas case with LV monogram, lozine, brass rivets, locks, key and reinforced corners, leather handle, opening to reveal brown fabric lined interior with four compartments, only one thousand trunks produced each specially designed to hold twenty-nine volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, to inside lid 'Especially Made For The Encyclopaedia Britannica By Louis Vuitton', numbered 209624, 89 x 33 x 27cm.
Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • See page 253 Louis Vuitton: 100 Legendary Trunks; published by Abrams 2010.

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