Long purse
Category
Costume
Date
1850 - 1860
Materials
Textile
Measurements
325 mm (H)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349540
Summary
Long purse made from pink and cream crocheted silk with a ten sided slide and steel trimmings. One end is squared with a fringe of steel beads, bugles and balls, the other rounded with two tassels of steel beads and bugles. Central opening 38 mm. (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade