WARNING: This article contains spoilers from Antiques Roadshow. An Antiques Roadshow guest couldn’t help but laugh when she was told how much her £12 trunk was really worth. The BBC daytime series set up shop at Ham House in Richmond to meet with guests from all walks of life and examine their unusual items.
One of which was a battered trunk that had clearly been made by designer Louis Vuitton. Explaining its backstory to expert Mark Hill, its owner said: “It was bought by my father for me as a present to put in my first flat. “He went to St Margaret’s to a little junk antique shop and he came back with that which he bought for £12.
” “Well it’s certainly been through the wars hasn’t it?”, Hill commented as the guest remarked: “It certainly has, it’s had a life.” He continued: “As one would expect. In many ways, trunks like these for me talk about the history of travel in some aspects as well.
“So we might have had the sort of domed trunks of the 18th Century that’d be on a carriage or a coach or something like that. “One of Louis Vuitton’s great innovations was the flat-top trunk which could be stacked in the new railway carriages. “Then bang, along came the aeroplane.
Heavy, large, kind of killed it for this sort of piece of luggage.” Opening up the trunk, Hill showed off its webbed trays which he seemed impressed by but continued to state that it was a “much more standard trunk”. When asked where it currently lives, she said: “I.
