Asprey briefcases with pics

"The brute covers himself, the rich man and the fop adorn themselves, the elegant man dresses!"

-Honore de Balzac

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zakkie13901
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Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:50 pm

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they looked like full grain calf... i'm wondering if it might be better to stick with my original choice of bridle leather from tanner krolle?
BirdofSydney
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:00 am

Elegant, to be sure, but I rather think the TK would both bear a great deal more weight, and age more gracefully...
Aristide
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 4:21 am

Please refer to "Tanner Krolle briefcases and holdalls" comments on the board.
storeynicholas

Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:47 pm

I would prefer something larger -inherited - with patina and scar tissue; burn marks and scuffs and bumps and big handmade brass locks - with keys missing since 1942.
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Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:59 pm

I would prefer something larger -inherited - with patina and scar tissue; burn marks and scuffs and bumps and big handmade brass locks - with keys missing since 1942.
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I would second Nicholas's choice except that I prefer to have my keys missing pre-war.
storeynicholas

Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:33 pm

Thank you. If you don't inherit one, there are places that sell cases of all kinds, including hat cases made by a long lost firm, called Finnigan of New Bond Street, the supply of whose quite wonderful goods seems to have declined in equal step with the decline in the Empire; which is rather different from the Colonial Office because C Northcote Parkinson tells us, in "Parkinson's Law", that, as the Empire declined, the number of officials employed in the Colonial and India Offices increased!
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