724 - Hermès Paris, silk tie with animals and scrolls, elephants, tigers and hunter, with original box

Hermès Paris, silk tie with animals and scrolls, elephants, tigers and hunter, with original box Silk, men's tie by Hermès Paris, inside black woven label "HERMÈS-PARIS" with carriage motif, at the side "100% SILK", "DRY CLEAN ONLY", "MADE IN FRANCE" and "100% SOIE", printed with animals and scrolls, elephants with caparison, tigers, horses, camel, birds and figures with turbans among flowering scrolls on a pale blue and light ground, diagonal grey-green border with cord edges and animal frieze, at the tip a hunter with gun before a tiger, with orange original box, lid inscribed "HERMÈS PARIS" with carriage motif, good condition commensurate with age, slight signs of wear at the edges. Hermès was founded in Paris in 1837 as the harness-making business of Thierry Hermès (1801–1878). Silk ties have been part of the range since 1949; the printed models of the house are made of light silk twill, patterned by screen printing, cut from two lengths of fabric and sewn by hand. Animal motifs and depictions of horses are among the recurring themes of these designer ties; the archive of the Maison comprises more than 75,000 colourways. The model for the carriage motif in the trademark was a gouache by Alfred de Dreux that Émile-Maurice Hermès acquired in the 1920s.