Swaine Adeney is a leather luggage maker. Brigg is the umbrella division. There are walking canes for both sexes as well as a wide range of lady's umbrellas. They are based in a large shop at 54, St James's St, London, where it abuts Piccadilly at the end of Jermyn Street.
The firm has held a Royal Warrant since 1893 for umbrellas, and for leather travel goods and business cases. It was founded in 1750.
Umbrellas start around £200 and go up to over a thousand for the ones with silk canopies. Leather bags start around £500 and go to £2300 for the Gladstone Bag. The more expensive versions are hand sewn. There is a range of country clothing and equestrian equipment of high quality as well. They offer, in addition, shirts, shoes, hats, cufflinks and ties as well as jackets and overcoats.
In 1980 Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford visited Herbert Johnson looking for the ideal hat for their upcoming film Raiders of the Lost Ark. They chose a 'stable brown' felt hat called the Herbert Johnson 'Poet'. This iconic hat (which was very popular during the 1920s and 30s) was the hat which Harrison Ford wore in the original Indiana Jones trilogy. Since then Herbert Johnson have joined Swaine Adeney Brigg's store on St. James Street and are located on the ground floor. Just like the finest leather goods and umbrellas the store is famous for, the original Indiana Jones hat is now one of their most valued claims to quality, prestige and fame.[1]
Most of their leather goods are available in three colours, london tan, havana brown and black. The shop is at the West End of Jermyn Street on two floors and displays hundreds of suitcases and attache cases in a wide array of styles. The company also owns Papworth leather goods which offers less expensive versions of the Swaine cases.