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Description: A lovely vintage vellum leather travelling shoe case with spaces for six pairs of shoes (after all, you couldn’t possibly travel with any fewer than that!). Vellum leather was very popular amongst 1930’s Hollywood starlets but is now very rarely used due to the high cost of manufacture. This attractive and rare example has It has a lovely watersilk lining and fastens with a chrome-plated brass locks. Delightfully, it still bears the remnants of various ocean-liner labels collected in the course of its travels (including the Blue Star Line, where it’s previous owner was a first class passenger to Lisbon!). It remains very usable, be it for transporting or storing your most cherished shoes. A beautiful and practical piece of social history! Measurements in cm: W46 D31 H19 |