A battered old storage trunk bought for £12 is set to fetch thousands at auction - after it turned out to be a Louis Vuitton original. A dad snapped up the steamer trunk in 1984 after spotting it in a bric-a-brac shop in St Margarets, near Twickenham in London.
He paid £12 for the luggage which he gave to his daughter to help her store her belongings when she moved into a cramped flat. The daughter, who is just giving her first name Melissa, stored sheets and linen in the trunk for years before realising its true value.
Melissa took it along to the Antiques Roadshow last year and was stunned to learn it was worth up to £6,000. Melissa, 56, said she is now selling the 100-year-old trunk to protect it from her cats.
