Antique Mahogany & Blue Leather Catchall Travel Valet Tray

Made for Discerning Travelers

• Organize Your Essentials Abroad: Rings, cufflinks, pins, keys, ephemera and more: if you need to keep track of it while traveling, keep it in your travel valet tray.
• Travel-Friendly Convenience: Packs completely flat to slide effortlessly into your carry-on or checked luggage.
• Luggage-Safe Corners: Sculpted with rounded outer corners to ensure no sharp edges dig into your luggage lining, snag garments, or pull threads.
• Generous, Angled Profile: Engineered with a larger footprint than standard valet trays, this tray features subtly curved and angled walls. This ergonomic design allows easier access to your essentials while providing ample room for larger items.

Crafted for Years of Travel

• Dual-Leather Construction: Features a durable, grain-textured exterior paired with an ultra-soft, contrasting interior suede. The plush inner suede not only offers a rich tactile feel but also naturally grips your watches, cufflinks, rings, and pens to prevent sliding.
• Discreet German Hardware: Premium German snap buttons ensure effortless assembly. Unlike typical trays that expose metal snaps on the exterior when buttoned, our hidden design keeps hardware completely concealed for a seamless, clean look.
• Luxurious Padding & Structure: Built with an advanced multi-layer core, combining robust internal reinforcement with deep foam padding. It holds its structured shape over years of use while providing a soft, protective surface.
• Hand-Painted Edges: Meticulously edge-painted by hand in multiple layers for exceptional durability and longevity, ensuring the edges remain clean and refined through years of packing and unfolding.

Achieve a Bespoke Appearance

Part of a Leather Finish Family: Color-matched and designed to seamlessly complement our existing collection of leather accessories in this finish, including luggage tags, passport holders, key rings, wallets, and more.

The Finest Bovine Leather

Fort Belvedere proudly sources four unique varieties of treated leather, each with its own special qualities. These particular leathers are employed for most of our small leather goods, allowing you to easily match the leather accessories in your ensemble.

Americana, Dumont, and Montecristo Leather

Our Americana, Dumont, and Montecristo leathers were all tanned in Italy with hides exclusively taken from English bulls. Why bulls?

• Leather from cows that have calved can stretch and warp, altering the look.
• In contrast, bull leather is free from these imperfections, maintaining the pristine, authentic quality of the material without reliance on synthetic alterations.
• These skins then underwent our tanning process at an Italian tannery steeped in heritage, boasting more than a hundred years of operation.
• This establishment is not only committed to crafting the highest quality open-pored leathers, following the esteemed Italian artisanal methods but also prioritizes sustainable sourcing, fair labor standards, and reducing its environmental footprint.

Togo Leather

The leather for our Togo products was sourced solely from young calves that graze in the elevated meadows of the Alpine region. Why is this significant?

• The Alpine climate is cooler, resulting in a reduced number of insects. A lower incidence of insects leads to fewer bites on the animals, which can otherwise damage the leather, causing imperfections.
• Additionally, while the hides of calves are more expensive than those of larger cows and bulls due to their size, the exceptional characteristics of calfskin—its resilience paired with softness—justify the cost.
• These hides then underwent tanning and preparation at a historic German tannery with centuries of operation under its belt.
• This esteemed tannery is committed to crafting the most exquisite open-pored leathers, upholding the venerable legacy of German artistry.
• In serving not only Fort Belvedere but also numerous elite and luxury fashion brands, it secures its reputation as a purveyor of premium leathers.

Superlative Suede

Suede is the ultimate material for lining a travel tray. Its dense construction acts as a natural shock absorber, offering top-notch protection even when cut thin. The natural grip of suede keeps your possessions securely in place, preventing scratches and dings.

While many manufacturers avoid suede due to its cost, we at Fort Belvedere prioritize quality. We chose superior natural suede over cheaper synthetic alternatives like Alcantara because our clients deserve the best.

• After extensive testing, we chose bullhide suede for its durability and natural grip. Other suede types were too soft and we found that they wore away very quickly with regular use, while the bullhide suede was supple and durable.
• The bullhide suede also showed a remarkable innate ability to gently "cling" to items in the tray, securing them in place and ensuring that they are both accessible and secure.

Dimensions

Dimension (Assembled) ≈ 19.8 cm x 19.8 cm x 3.3 cm - 7.8" x 7.8" x 1.30"
Dimension (Usable) ≈ 15.4 cm x 15.4 cm x 3.3 cm - 6.06" x 6.06" x 1.30"
Dimensions (Flat) ≈ 22 cm x 22 cm x 8 mm - 8.66" x 8.66" x 0.31"
Usable Surface ≈ 237 cm² - 36.8 in²

Wall Thickness (Assembled) ≈ 2.5 mm - 0.10"

Care

To nourish the leather and keep it supple and appearing its most fine, we suggest that every couple years you apply an unpigmented shoe polish or cream to its surface. Buff the polish or cream as you would your shoes.

Cleaning

If water is spilled on this leather accessory, remove all items from it, blot away (don’t rub) any excess liquid, and allow it to air-dry fully.

Please note that artificially drying leather goods, like with a hairdryer or heat gun, will degrade the leather.

If this leather accessory should become stained, clean it following the instructions on the dedicated leather cleaner of your choice.

If the stain persists, take the accessory to a dry cleaner that specializes in cleaning luxury leather goods.