eelskin briefcase

On return from Queensland, neighbour B gave me this, along with the collected mail.

What a treasure! Golden, glowing and while I would not have a clue as to the leather, she says it is eelskin, and she would know having fished for eels as a child.
There are a number of pockets and handles that 'slip away' when not required.

Recently, I watched the dvd of 'The Words', a film about a aspiring writer who buys an old briefcase in Paris, and there in a pocket is a manuscript. He decides to claim it as his own and it is published to great acclaim.... and further woes.
While there was no such manuscript in this precious case, there was a handful of change and a very old airline ticket from the days when they were in a little booklet of ever decreasingly legible carbon pages.

So there may be a story to tell.