United States Luggage

United States Luggage has two distinct historical roots -The United States Trunk Co., founded in 1911 in Fall River, Massachusetts and London Leather, founded in 1940 by John Ax in New York City.John Ax was a skilled craftsman who, with his young family, walked off the boat from Europe, carrying little more than $100 and the clothes on their backs. Scraping together enough money to buy leather scraps from local tanneries in New York City, he handmade wallets, key fobs and other small leather goods, which he sold to support his young family. He named the company London Leather. In 1959 Larry Krulik, joined his father-in-law and together they steadily grew the company. In the early 1970u2019s London Leather transitioned from its New York city manufacturing roots and shifted to instead designing and wholesaling wooden jewelry boxes that were manufactured in the Far East.