Gucci · Tier 3
By Arielle · Catalogued July 2026
Bamboo 1947 is Gucci's revival of its original bamboo-handled bag, a top-handle design the house first created in 1947 using heat-bent bamboo when leather was scarce in postwar Italy. Alessandro Michele reintroduced it as the Bamboo 1947 for Gucci's 2021 Aria collection, keeping the curved bamboo handle and turn-lock while updating the proportions. The name marks the year of the original design.
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The Gucci Bamboo 1947 Mini in Black is a designer bag.
Best listed right now: $147 on The RealReal, well below the typical price (median $1,800).
Demand is light and prices are soft, so there's little pressure to move fast.
Discontinued: no longer in production, so resale is the only way to buy it.
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Estimated from recorded resale prices (built from 85 asking + 4 sold prices · 72 with condition unrecorded) · not an appraisal. As of 2026-07-13.
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Born from postwar scarcity, its handle is still bent over an open flame in Florence.
Origin
Gucci introduced the Bamboo bag in 1947, in the lean years after the war when leather and metal were scarce in Italy. Short on materials, the house's artisans turned to bamboo imported from Japan.
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Design
Craftsmen heated and curved the bamboo over an open flame into its signature arched handle, a method that holds its shape once cooled. Each handle is still shaped by hand in Florence using that 1947 technique.
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$2,875 → $1,627 across 89 recorded sales
2026-06 – 2026-07
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Grained leather is forgiving, but it still likes a gentle clean and the odd condition.
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The design was distinctive enough that Gucci secured a patent on the bamboo bag in 1958, so no other house could copy it.
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By the numbers
Across 89 recorded resale listings, the Bamboo 1947 sits around $1,800. This is our estimate from current data, not an appraisal, as of 2026-07-13.
Designers and muses.
Guccio Gucci
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The house whose Florentine artisans improvised the bamboo handle in 1947.
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Live listings for this bag across the marketplaces we track, each rated against the fair value for its spec. We don’t sell these, we link you to the seller. Prices change and sell.
The RealReal · listed 3 days ago
$147
The RealReal · listed 3 days ago
$335
The Luxury Closet · listed today
$413
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$853
The Luxury Closet · listed 4 days ago
$863
Fashionphile · listed 5 days ago
$995
The Luxury Closet · listed today
$1,627
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$1,661
The Luxury Closet · listed 2 days ago
$1,722
The Luxury Closet · listed 4 days ago
$2,305
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Fashionphile · listed 5 days ago
$2,460
