Briefcases at Paperstone

A briefcase is an essential adjunct to the office executive. A suitcase is in effect your mobile office, a place to store files, documents, diaries and stationery when on the move. From smart attaché cases, with which to assert your professionalism and stun your colleagues and clients into admiration, to practical, expandable business bags and trolleyed luggage solutions, you don't need to look further than Paperstone for your briefcase needs.

Our briefcase range includes:

• Spacious attaché cases with business and credit card holders, pen loops, accessory pockets and combination locks.
• Briefcase and laptop bag combos.
• Old school briefcases in case you have any business to attend to in the 1930s.
• Document cases – with lots of pockets for multiple documents.
• Laptop cases.
• Pilot cases.
• Laptop backpacks.
• Laptop trolley cases.
• Overnight briefcases and laptop cases.

You can choose from real leather, 'leather look' and other materials.

Choosing a briefcase - considerations

• What am I going to carry in it? Laptop briefcases provide extra protection for your portable PC while larger cases like th Impala Overnight Business Case may be used to accommodate travelling items like clothes and wash bags. If you are buying a briefcase simply to carry documents and files, you may only require a folio case, the Masters Document Case, for instance.
• What message do I want to convey? While traditional leather briefcases can communicate a certain panache, it is increasingly acceptable to use more informal shoulder bags to carry work items. Less formal bags may also convey a desired relaxed image.
• Do I need all those compartments? While you might need specific compartments and pockets for different items like business cards and pens, a superfluity of compartments may get annoying after a while. They also take up space if unused.
• Handle, strap or roller? For cases that will be heavy when packed and that you will lug around a lot, consider a rolling case with a telescopic handle like the Wheeled Masters Pilot Case.
• Is security an issue? To safeguard valuables, some business bags – the Bonded Leather Masters Attache Briefcase, for example – come with combination locks.

Briefcase trivia

• Briefcases evolved from satchels used in the fourteenth century for conveying money, documents and other valuables. Godillot of Paris was probably the first to construct a carpet bag with a hinged iron frame – a precursor to the modern metal frame briefcase.
• The original red, box-like Budget briefcase was made for William Gladstone around 1860. The “Gladstone bag” is named after this long-serving Victorian chancellor. The hand-crafted Budget “bag” (to which it is traditionally referred) was made of wood, lined with black satin and upholstered in scarlet leather. The same box was continuously used until chancellor James Callaghan broke with tradition in the years 1965 and 1966, introducing a new box. The word budget, incidentally, shares etymology with that of bag.
  Red briefcases are often used as ministerial boxes to pass documents between government departments. Made of wood, they are traditionally lined with lead – originally so they could be thrown of the side of a ship in the event of capture but nowadays to prohibit X-ray examination. They are also bomb-proof.
• A briefcase bomb was used in an abortive attempt on Hitler's life on 20 July, 1944 by anti-Hitler conspirators within the German army. Lieutenant Colonel Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg personally attempted the assassination. He placed the briefcase containing explosives in a conference room at the Wolfsschanze field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, where Hitler was to attend. However, an attending officer nudged the case out of his way to the far side of a very sturdy conference table, a table which would shield Hitler from the main force of the explosion, leaving the dictator with only minor injuries.
• A central motif of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction is a briefcase whose contents – unseen by the audience – projects a glow on the face of the onlooker. (For filming purposes, an orange lightbulb was used). The enigmatic nature of this motif has generated extra-filmic narratives and has helped propagate the film's cult status. Film buffs and Tarantino fans have speculated on the briefcase's contents, positing gold bars, the soul of gangster Marcellus Wallace, the diamonds from the robbery in Reservoir Dogs and even a “Royale with cheese” as possible candidates. It's very possible, however, that the briefcase is simply a plot device and that Tarantino had no particular contents in mind when he wrote the script with Roger Avary.

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