Hand Needlepoint Tote Bag w/ 30 Famous Owners Racing Colours/ Silks Charles Cary Rumsey Guest photographed by Philippe Halsman

Guest photographed by Philippe Halsman featured on the cover of Time Magazine’s 1962 story about Society on the North Shore of Long Island

Jeeves has been advising Bertie's old school friend

Now re-introduced for the first time since its original publication in 1949

Mercury House

183 lotsChristie's200510 3/4" X 8 3/4"From modest beginnings in 1946 in Detroit

Hand Needlepoint Tote Bag w/ 30 Famous Owners Racing Colours/ Silks Charles Cary Rumsey Guest photographed by Philippe HalsmanNeedlepoint panel Sz: 8 3 4"H x 10 3 4"W Black canvas tote Sz: 13 1 2"H x 14"W Handle Sz: 17"L Tote includes over 21,000 individual stitches. This very unique bag is hand made and originally took more than 50 hours of workmanship to complete Racing Silks Needlepoint Owners Key: (Upper left lower right) Noel La Mare (UK) Red Rum Dormello Stud Frederico Tesio (IT) Nearco Queen Elizabeth (UK) Devon Loch Queen Elizabeth II (UK) Height of Fashion Aga Khan