Overview
- Le Birkin Voyageur, inscribed by Jane Birkin and used as her daily bag from 2003 to 2007, sold for about $2.86 million at a Sotheby’s sale in Abu Dhabi.
- The hammer price was roughly six times the pre-sale estimate, which had been set around $240,000 to $400,000.
- Sotheby’s said six collectors competed for 11 minutes before an unidentified phone bidder won the lot.
- Despite heavy wear, missing lock, key, and clochette, the bag’s documented history and personal inscription made it a coveted artifact.
- The result follows July’s €8.58 million sale of the original Birkin prototype, with another Birkin from Birkin’s collection due at Paris’s Hôtel Drouot on December 15 to support the planned Jane Birkin Foundation.