The Grenadier Guards red tunic in the foreground is one of the attractions in vintage luggage dealer Robin Unsworth’s marquee at IACF Newark.
An extraordinary piece of Edwardian shopping history, a window on a vanished world, is the 1400-page, 1907 catalogue for the Army and Navy stores in London.
It offers a detailed section on portmanteaus including mule panniers “as recommended by Lord Wolseley” as well as a gentlemen’s leather fitted suitcase at £33.10s.