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Tycoon Fetches Millions Selling 76 Hermes Bags in Hong Kong

  • Event was the largest single-owner handbag sale in Asia
  • Joseph Lau’s family still owns more than 1,000 Hermes bags
The event is the largest single-owner handbag sale in Asia’s auction market.
The event is the largest single-owner handbag sale in Asia’s auction market.Source: Sotheby’s

Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau has sold dozens of mostly Hermes bags for HK$25.2 million ($3.2 million) in an auction by Sotheby’s.

Named the first part of a “visionary collection of Joseph Lau,” the event was the largest single-owner handbag sale in Asia’s auction market. A proportion of the proceeds will be donated to charity, the auction house said, without disclosing the percentage figure.