Tickers explained

Every bag has a ticker

A ticker is a stable name for one exact configuration of a bag. Two bags with the same ticker are the same instrument, whoever is selling and whatever year it was made.

HRM.BRK30.NOIR.TOGO.GHW

A black Birkin 30 in Togo leather with gold hardware.

The five parts

HRM

HOUSE

Three or four letters for the maison. HRM Hermès, CHN Chanel, LV Louis Vuitton.

BRK30

MODEL+SIZE

The model code and the size the house uses. BRK30 is a Birkin 30, CFJUMBO a Jumbo Classic Flap.

NOIR

COLOUR

The house's own colour name, not a generic one — Noir, Etoupe, Gris.

TOGO

MATERIAL

Leather or textile. Togo, Epsom, Caviar, Lambskin, Canvas.

GHW

HARDWARE

Gold, palladium, silver, ruthenium. It moves resale price more than people expect.

Searching with part of one

HRMEvery Hermès bag we track.

HRM.BRKEvery Birkin, any size — the segment is matched by prefix.

HRM.BRK30Every Birkin 30, any colour.

HRM..NOIREvery black Hermès. The empty segment means “any”.

*.*.NOIREvery black bag from any house.

Why a partial ticker draws a chart

When a search matches more than one bag, Luxfolio charts them together as an index — equally weighted and rebased to 1,000 at the start of the window. So “every black Hermès” is not just a list, it is something you can watch. Equal weighting is deliberate: weighting by value would let a single Birkin drown out everything else and quietly turn the index into that one bag.

What is not in a ticker

Year. One Birkin 30 Noir Togo spans many production years, and folding the year in would split it into dozens of thin, barely-traded instruments and destroy the price history. Year is a filter, not an identity. Condition, too — a ticker names the bag; the condition ladder prices it.