"It reads, in French, "Pour la F.I.D.H dans le monde entier...Mon birkin bag qui a voyagé avec moi dans le monde entier...Love Jane B." (English translation: "To the F.I.D.H across the world...My Birkin bag, which has traveled the world with me...Love, Jane B.") Underneath an interior pocket flap, Birkin roughly sketched a reclining female nude."
"Le Birkin Voyageur sold for well above its estimate of $240,000-$400,000, though at $2.8 million, it brought it significantly less than this summer's record-breaking $10 million sale, also at Sotheby's, of Hermès's original Birkin bag. The prototype sold to Shinsuke Sakimoto, the CEO of luxury goods reseller Valuence Holdings Inc. That bag also had a charitable history; Birkin sold it in 1994 to help fund AIDS research."
"Le Birkin Voyageur is one of four "replacement" bags Hermès gifted to Birkin after she donated the original. According to Sotheby's, it was Birkin's "everyday" bag from 2003 to 2007, "worn, loved, and filled with the ordinary yet treasured objects of her life." Indeed, the condition report confirms that this item was well-used. The lock, key, and accompanying clochette (small leather pouch that held the key) are all missing, and the hardware and leather are heavily worn and scratched."
Jane Birkin's black leather Hermès Birkin, Le Birkin Voyageur, sold at Sotheby's in Abu Dhabi on Dec. 5 for $2.8 million during a four-day sale of luxury goods. The bag bears a handwritten inscription by Birkin dedicating it to the International Federation for Human Rights from a 2007 charity auction and includes a rough sketch of a reclining female nude under an interior pocket flap. The bag exceeded its $240,000–$400,000 estimate but fell short of a $10 million record sale of an original Birkin earlier in the year. The bag was one of four replacements gifted by Hermès, served as Birkin's everyday bag from 2003–2007, and shows heavy wear with missing lock, key, and clochette.
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