Globe-Trotter Centenary cases in olive & charcoal
magine if Karl Benz had unveiled his ‘Motorwagen’ in 1866 with no wheels on it, instead expecting users to carry it like pallbearers. Ridiculous? Yes, but no more so than the fact that, having invented the earliest progenitor to the suitcase for use in the Crusades, human itinerants spent another seven centuries lugging* their possessions around in chunky rectangular carriers before the American Bernard Sadow came up with the idea of attaching wheels to them