Antique Gucci? Any ideas what this is?

Hi,

I was digging through an elderly relatives loft the other week as she had passed away. She used to be an antique dealer but retired around 20 years ago. there were many old items in her house but this particular one intrigued me a little.

I can't find any info from Google but have seen the same pattern and colours used in the Gucci Anniversary collection. I don't even know what this small case is used for, although I would hazard a guess at it being either a cigarette or a playing card case. It's not in the best condition it has ever been in but i'm wondering if anybody here knows what it is and could give me some more information on it?

Here are the pics, I couldn't upload them to this site as the files were to big! http://imgur.com/a/k28xU

Many thanks

 

You don't give dimensions but almost certainly a cigarette case. 1970s I would say, from when things started to go wrong in GUCCI-land. And you're right re Anniversary Collection. An old logo that someone's hauled out of archive and freshened up.

Debora

 

"Vintage," not "antique."

Debora

 

Just trash for the bin then?

Appreciate your help

 

I agree with the others to vintage 1960s-1970s - not antique. I do think these pics are all of one item. The opened end with the Gucci logo is the lid open at the top of the cigarette case.

You need to crop and resize your pics **before** uploading for them to fit into a message. Your pics

Weight-wise: range from about 800KB to 1,000KB
Dimensional-wise: 3,024px wide X 4,032px high with the website scaling them down to 680px wide X 907px high.

Before uploading to this site they really should not be over
Weight-wise: 50 to 200KB
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I took the liberty of cropping and resizing your pics for them to be seen in this thread. Many many people do not like to take the trouble of clicking an unknown link to see pics.

--- Susan

The following pics range from 350px to 650px wide and weight-wise: 23 to 34KB.

 

Just trash for the bin then?

I would not throw it into the trash. If nothing else send it to a thrift shop of your choice that would allow someone like us to find & then sell on ebay.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fro...lete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

Peggy

 

Hi Craig283, and I don't remember if you were here before and got a WELCOME!!! If not, then here 'tis!!! Great info to be found on this site, so don't trash your new found cigarette case!!!!! Looks like it's definitely worth a good few bucks!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Most certainly not trash. A GUCCI collector could very well be interested.

Debora

 

I think this one is early 1980's.

It seems to be from the same collection (I think there may have been collections within the Anniversary Collection...) as this bag:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/182185355718?lpid=82&chn=ps&ul_noapp=true

Note the similarities in the trim and hardware.

 

I think you're right.

Debora