{"title":"Kelly","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-25-etoupe-togo-palladium-hardware-2024","title":"Hermès Kelly 25 Etoupe Togo Palladium Hardware 2024","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe Kelly descends from the 1930s Sac à dépêches, a saddle-holder's bag that took its current name after Grace Kelly used one to shield a pregnancy from photographers in 1956. At 25cm the whole mechanism survives the reduction — sangles across the front, the touret turning against the plate, the clochette hanging from the handle — worked down to a scale that carries an evening as readily as a day.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe exterior is Togo, the pebbled calfskin Hermès introduced in 1997 and now uses more than any other on this bag. Its raised grain and fine veining resist scratching and light water, it holds shape without stiffening, and it is light for its substance, which matters more on a small bag than most people expect. Etoupe sits between grey and brown and moves between the two with the light — the reason it holds a permanent place while brighter colours rotate through.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePalladium hardware, a platinum-group metal that stays cool silver and does not tarnish, keeps the whole thing quiet.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp W (2024). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578779062485,"sku":"H-0001","price":33300.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/0A1_0009_A1.jpg?v=1791490026"},{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-28-graphite-shiny-porosus-crocodile-palladium-hardware-2002","title":"Hermès Kelly 28 Graphite Shiny Porosus Crocodile Palladium Hardware 2002","description":"\u003cdiv\u003ePorosus is the saltwater crocodile: small scales, tightly symmetrical, the pattern running in ordered rows and tightening toward the edges of the panel. The shine is not a coating. The skin is polished by hand with an agate stone until the surface takes a glass-like finish — a process that reads immediately in the room and almost never photographs as it looks.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eGraphite is a cool, dark grey, and on glazed Porosus it behaves less like a colour than a depth, the scales holding light at different angles as the bag turns. On a Kelly the single rolled handle is where the work shows: there is no flat panel to hide behind, and the scale run across it either carries cleanly or it does not.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePalladium hardware, cool silver and tarnish-resistant, is the correct register for a grey skin.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp [F] (2002). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag and detachable strap. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578784108757,"sku":"H-0008","price":38500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/hc1_4046295.jpg?v=1787256609"},{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-32-blanc-toile-and-togo-palladium-hardware-2005","title":"Hermès Kelly 32 Blanc Toile and Togo Palladium Hardware 2005","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eToile Kellys are the warm-weather build — a canvas body with leather trim, which takes a good deal of weight out of a 32cm bag and changes how it wears. Here the trim is Togo, the pebbled calfskin Hermès introduced in 1997, in Blanc against white canvas.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eCanvas is honest about its age in a way leather is not. It cannot be fed and conditioned back, and on a piece from 2005 the wear is visible. This bag is graded good — visible wear, fully disclosed. That grade is the reason for the price, and the piece is offered on those terms rather than around them. A buyer who wants a Kelly with no history should look at a later bag; a buyer who wants this configuration should know what they are getting and pay accordingly.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWhat it keeps is the architecture — sangles, touret, clochette, the full Kelly mechanism at 32cm. Palladium hardware, cool silver and tarnish-resistant.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp [I] (2005). In good condition, with visible wear disclosed. Includes clochette, detachable strap, key, lock, and original dust bag. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578784567509,"sku":"H-0010","price":16100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/bw1_3986160.jpg?v=1787256610"},{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-28-noir-box-calf-palladium-hardware-2008","title":"Hermès Kelly 28 Noir Box Calf Palladium Hardware 2008","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eBox Calf is the oldest leather in the house, in continuous use since the 1890s and named for Joseph Box, the nineteenth-century English shoemaker associated with the tannage. It is smooth, semi-glossy, and boardy in the hand — rigid enough that a Kelly built in it holds its lines without help from anything else.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIt is also the leather that changes most with use. Box takes a patina: the tone deepens where the bag is handled, corners darken, fine scratches burnish back under a finger. Collectors who choose Box over a grained leather are choosing that trajectory on purpose and accepting that the surface records everything along the way.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn Noir the semi-gloss is at its most pronounced — under direct light the panels read almost lacquered, which is what separates a Box Kelly from a Togo one across a room.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp [L] (2008). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578785517781,"sku":"H-0013","price":16600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/hb1_4046305.jpg?v=1787256615"},{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-cut-bleu-encre-chevre-mysore-gold-hardware-2021","title":"Hermès Kelly Cut Bleu Encre Chèvre Mysore Gold Hardware 2021","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThis is goatskin, not calf. Chèvre Mysore has a fine ridged grain rather than a pebbled one, with a distinct sheen running along the ridges, and the hide is light, stiff, and hard-wearing. In a flat clutch that stiffness is the argument: the panel stays true instead of bowing, which a softer leather at this size eventually will.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBleu Encre is an ink blue — dark enough to read as black at distance, unmistakably blue in daylight. Chèvre catches light along its ridges, so the colour moves across the panel as the bag turns. It is the one thing about this leather a photograph consistently fails to carry.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe Kelly Cut is an elongated clutch derived from the Kelly, made in a single size of roughly 31cm, with the sangles and touret of the full bag laid across its front. Gold hardware, warm against a cold blue.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp Z (2021). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578786271445,"sku":"H-0015","price":14600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/0A1_0007_b1.jpg?v=1791489926"},{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-32-blanc-togo-palladium-hardware-2018","title":"Hermès Kelly 32 Blanc Togo Palladium Hardware 2018","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eWhite is the hardest colour to keep on a bag and the most direct evidence of how one has been kept. Nothing hides on a Blanc Kelly — corners, base, the underside of the handle all report honestly — which is why the condition grade carries more weight here than it would on a dark piece. This one grades excellent: light wear consistent with careful use, no notable flaws.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eTogo is what makes white workable on a bag meant to be used. The pebbled calfskin, introduced in 1997, has a raised, finely veined grain that resists scratching and light water, and it holds the bag's shape without stiffening it. At 32cm the Kelly reads at its most formal — the full architecture of sangles, touret, and clochette at a scale where every part of it is legible.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePalladium hardware, cool silver and tarnish-resistant, keeps the palette cold throughout.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp C (2018). In excellent condition, with clochette, detachable strap, and lock. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578786631893,"sku":"H-0016","price":18500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/kw1_3986050.jpg?v=1787256619"},{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-pochette-rose-dragee-swift-palladium-hardware-2007","title":"Hermès Kelly Pochette Rose Dragée Swift Palladium Hardware 2007","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe Kelly Pochette is a clutch made in a single size, and it is not a Mini Kelly — the two are regularly conflated and are different bags. What it keeps from the full Kelly is the front: the sangles, the touret, the clochette, reduced to a scale that holds little more than the essentials and asks to be carried rather than packed.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eRose Dragée is a pale, chalky pink — the sugared-almond tone the name refers to, not a bright one — and Swift is the leather that serves it best. Fine and nearly smooth with a slight sheen, Swift takes dye more deeply than any grained calfskin Hermès works, which on a pale colour means an even, unbroken tone across a very small panel where any variation would be obvious. The trade is that Swift is soft and shows pressure marks more readily than a structured leather.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFrom 2007, in excellent condition. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578787057877,"sku":"H-0017","price":19200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/17_A_4013718.jpg?v=1787256621"},{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-32-noir-shiny-porosus-crocodile-gold-hardware-2014","title":"Hermès Kelly 32 Noir Shiny Porosus Crocodile Gold Hardware 2014","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eNoir Porosus is the most restrained an exotic Kelly gets. Porosus is the saltwater crocodile, and its scales are small and tightly symmetrical — at 32cm that means a great many of them, running in ordered rows across the flap and body. The pattern does the work colour does elsewhere.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe shine is not applied. The skin is polished by hand with an agate stone until the surface takes a glass-like finish, and in black that finish is at its most severe: nearly lacquered in direct light, close to matte in shadow, moving between the two as the bag does.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eGold hardware reads as warmth against a skin that has none of its own.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp [R] (2014). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578788008149,"sku":"H-0018","price":38500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/kb1_3987610.jpg?v=1787256623"},{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-32-gris-mouette-togo-palladium-hardware-2018","title":"Hermès Kelly 32 Gris Mouette Togo Palladium Hardware 2018","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eGris Mouette is a mid-grey with a faint blue cast — gull grey, as the name has it — and one of the more useful colours the house runs. Dark enough for daily use, light enough that the Kelly's lines stay visible, neutral without being anonymous.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eTogo carries it well. The pebbled calfskin, introduced in 1997, has a raised grain and fine veining that give a quiet colour some movement across the panel, and it resists scratching and light water while holding its shape. At 32cm the Kelly reads at its most formal — sangles, touret, and clochette at a scale where all of it is legible.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePalladium hardware, a platinum-group metal that stays cool silver and does not tarnish, is the right register for a grey bag.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp C (2018). In excellent condition. Includes clochette, detachable strap, lock, felt, dust bag, and rain cover. The lock is present; the key is not included. Authenticated in-house.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hermès","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54578788925653,"sku":"H-0021","price":17700.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/3182\/9461\/files\/21_05_4046266.jpg?v=1787256625"},{"product_id":"hermes-kelly-cut-rouge-h-swift-gold-hardware-2022","title":"Hermès Kelly Cut Rouge H Swift Gold Hardware 2022","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe Kelly Cut takes the front of the Kelly — sangles, touret, clochette — and draws it out into a clutch of roughly 31cm, shallow enough to sit flat under an arm. It runs in one size only, which makes leather and colour the whole of the decision.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eRouge H is among the oldest colours the house maintains: a deep red pulled toward brown rather than orange, dark enough to pass for a burgundy indoors and only resolving as red when it catches daylight. On Swift it goes deeper still. Swift is fine, nearly smooth, with a slight sheen, and it absorbs dye more thoroughly than any grained calfskin Hermès uses, so the colour reads as one unbroken field across a panel where a grain would have interrupted it.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eGold hardware follows the colour rather than contrasting it — warm against warm, which is the conventional reading of Rouge H and the reason the pairing has held.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp U (2022). In excellent condition, with its original dust bag. 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It is calfskin embossed under heat, so the cross-hatch grain is pressed into the hide rather than grown out of it, which leaves the surface firm, scratch-resistant, and able to hold a crisp edge indefinitely. Pairing it with Sellier is not a styling decision; it is what keeps those corners square years in. Bleu Glacier is a pale, cool blue, and Epsom's flat, uniform finish carries it evenly across every panel without the tonal drift a grained leather introduces.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eGold hardware is the warm counterweight — the one element in the bag that is not cold.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBlind stamp G (2025). In excellent condition, with clochette, detachable strap, original dust bag, and rain cover. 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