Gucci · Tier 3

Bamboo 1947

Name: Gucci Bamboo 1947 Small
Brand: Gucci

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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Colour

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Material

Leather Suede Exotic / PrintUnknown

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Material

Leatherdefault

Seasonal: Suede, Exotic / Print

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The brown shades we’ve recorded (12)

Black91Yellow44Brown/Ivory/Multicolor33Orange27Green22Silver21Cream20Beige17Multicolor13White13Brown, Green1Brown, Pattern Prints1

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What it's worth

Gucci · Bamboo 1947 · Small · Brown

This exact variant · 1000 recorded prices

Best listed right now: $165 on The RealReal, well below the typical price (median $1,890).

Demand is light and prices are soft, so there's little pressure to move fast.

No longer in production, so resale is the only way to buy it.

By condition · compared like-for-like

excellent

42 prices

very good

35 prices

good

18 prices

fair

2 prices

$165$2,695

Estimated from recorded resale prices (903 with condition unrecorded) · not an appraisal. As of 2026-08-27.

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Where it stands

#171

of 536 styles in the LC Index

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⚖Blended from price, trade volume, and scarcity.
◷Recomputed monthly from recorded market prices.

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The three measures behind #171

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GHouseGucciest. 1921 · Italy Hardwaregold ColourBrown

The Story

Born from postwar scarcity, its handle is still bent over an open flame in Florence.

Origin

Made from what was left

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.

SourcesInto Archive Weekly Lux Drop

Design

Bent over a flame

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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Specifications

SizeSmall

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ColorwayBrown

Hardware colorgold

StatusDiscontinued

Marketresale

Resale price history

-92%

$3,525 → $294 across 1000 recorded sales

2026-06 – 2026-08

Estimated from recorded resale prices · not an appraisal or investment forecast. Values can go down as well as up.

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