Daily prompt: corner wear — prevention and honest grading
Today's prompt is care. Corners are where carried bags show their years first, and where condition grades are won and lost. What do you do to protect them — rotation, storage, carrying habits — and how harshly do you grade corner wear when you're the buyer?
Front straight-on, base corners, hardware close-up, interior stamp/code, and the bag held — not flat-laid — so you can see structure. Any seller who won't send all five in daylight is telling you something. This has save…
A real certificate names the bag, the specifics examined (stitching count, stamp font, hardware engraving, code format), and gives a determination — not just a logo and '100% authentic'. If it reads like marketing, it is…
A Hause explainer, because this comes up on almost every 'is this real?' post. A receipt supports a bag; it never proves one — receipts are easier to fake than bags. What carries weight, in order: the bag's own construct…
From the Hause — how to use the ranges on this site like a collector instead of a gambler. Every bag page here publishes a resale range (as of November 2026), and the range is wide on purpose: the bottom is a carried bag…
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