Louis Vuitton French Co, Gucci Accesory Vintage Bags

This Guide is on the Louis Vuitton French gepany and Gucci Accessory Collection Designer Bags
I decided to write this guide for my recent obsession with Vintage Designer bags particularly Louis Vuitton French gepany and Gucci Accessory Collection Pieces. When collecting designer handbags authenticity is very important and these two collection I have studied and the authenticity can be much better determined. That is one reason to collect vintage( not having to pickthrough all the fakes). The second reason is that recently large respected designers such as Juicy Couture, Coach, Cole Haan, Keneth Cole have all started manufacturing their bags in China and other cheap labor countries. Vintage bags were all made in the USA and Europe. That is why they last so long because of their amazing quality.
Louis Vuitton Manufactured by The French gepany USA
The Louis Vuitton French gepany can be determined by one distinctive characteristic of a paper tag inserted in most of the handbags reading " Manufactured in the U.S.A. Under Special License to the french gepany". Unfortuney because these tags are made of such fragile material, some authentic bags wont have this tag, however I only purchase bags that have the tag. Also larger pieces have a large paper tag inside a tab.

The second characterists is usually the name Talon on the zipper however there are several other zipper names as well.
Another great way to make a distinction between an authentic vintage LV is the leather. It is not the same leather used on the bags today. This leather was pre-dyed to a rich brown color like shown on the interior of the bag above.
Also the majority of theseLouis Vuitton Bags were made with 2Monogram Canvaspieces. If you look at the bottom you will see a long leather strip connecting the two. These means that bags such as the Speedy will not have upside down LV's on one side.

It should be well noted that Louis Vuitton French gepany Bags cannot be determined by continuity. The LV's aren't always aligned, and are some times cut off ( see the picture above). The stitching often wont be perfect and many vintage bags have parts that have been restitched.
Another thing that should be noted are the discontinued styles. There are several Louis Vuitton Bags such as the one in the picture below that are discontinued and are hard to gee by especially in good condition. It sometimes throws people off when looking for an authentic Louis Vuitton because they assume it might be fake, however if you see a Vintage French gepany Bag in a style you've never seen it is most lilely a discontinued style
***With all this being said it's important to point out that even as far back as the 70's