![]() I said, ‘You know, I can get the Kelly, but I don’t know if we can deliver it.’ He said, ‘No problem, I will make sure to send a plane.’ So I delivered the bag. He needed to have it for her birthday in London within 24 hours. “There was an instance when a Russian oligarch wanted to buy a present for his girlfriend and she wanted a Himalaya Kelly. “I don’t travel a lot, but if I have to, I go,” she says, bluntly. If it sounds like Angert has had some glamorous encounters and crazy stories, she does. She won’t say whom she sold it to, but on Instagram longtime luxury-bag blogger Tina Craig, another Angert client, referred to the buyer as “a member of the Saudi royal family who prefers to stay anonymous.” (For the uninitiated, Craig is posing with a standard Himalaya in the photo, not the crocodile-diamond Birkin.) It’s that passion that led to Angert recently brokering the world’s most expensive single handbag ever sold: a matte, white, Niloticus crocodile, diamond, 30-centimeter Himalaya Birkin that went for $377,000 in Hong Kong. Today, as a collector and a consultant helping other Hermès fans build their collections, she owns more than 80 Hermès bags herself. Later on, she worked at a trend-forecasting company, reviewing fashion shows, before buying her first Hermès Birkin bag for $3,000 secondhand, at the age of 28. They use the best craftsmen in the world,” she says. But she’d been obsessed with the brand since the early ’80s, when she worked part-time in retail for a boss who would let her borrow her small collection of Hermès bags. Her husband, then a VP for Sotheby’s, inspired her to start selling online. #HERMES PURSES PROFESSIONAL#I have to give them new inventory on a daily basis.”Īngert, who goes by the name JaneFinds professionally, began her career as a professional Hermès collector, seller, and consultant in the early days of eBay in 1996. “I have certain clients that I constantly have to contact and give them new bags because they’re just collectors,” she says by phone. to start answering emails from around the world, and often works through the night to satisfy her buyers located in Asia. On any given day, she gets up around 4 or 5 a.m. Jane Angert’s studio in northern New Jersey contains anywhere between 150 and 250 rare Hermès bags. ![]()
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