Melvill and Moon’s handmade Safari bags are produced in either full leather or in a combination of heavy duty waterproofed cotton canvas and leather. All our bags have solid brass zips and hardware, broad webbing shoulder straps, reinforced roller leather handles (where appropriate) and lined inner pockets.
Modelled on the early East Africa Postman’s delivery bag; Bags that had to be extraordinary tough in order to survive many a brush with the unexpected while delivering the mail. One gets a good taste of it in the Link to Shel Arensen’s piece in ‘Old Africa – stories from East Africa’s past’- on the life and times of an early Kenyan postman. Written by John Cherry for the East African Standard 1955.
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