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Travel trunks

Vintage luxury trunk restoration & custom-making

A workshop built on a passion for heritage luggage: the restoration of period luxury travel trunks, spare parts for restorers working on their own pieces, and new trunks made to order using the same construction and materials as the great malletiers of the past.

Every restoration or new build draws on a working stock of period-correct hardware and materials, so a rebuilt corner, lock or leather trim reads as original rather than repaired.

Detail of a vintage leather trunk's brass lock

What to expect

Restoration of period trunks

Structural and decorative restoration of antique luxury travel trunks, keeping the piece's original character and construction intact.

Made-to-order trunks

New trunks built by hand in the tradition of the historic malletiers, from a stock of period-correct spare parts and reproduced hardware where an original no longer exists.

Spare parts for restorers

Period and faithfully reproduced hardware and materials, sourced in part from the stock of retired trunk-makers, available to buy for a restoration of your own.

History, authentication and valuation

An archive of historic trunk-makers' catalogues, invoices and labels supports authentication and valuation work, drawn on regularly by auction houses, collectors and legal professionals.

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