Long purse
Category
Costume
Date
1850 - 1860
Materials
Textile
Measurements
242 mm (H)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349541
Summary
Black knitted silk long purse with steel beads, steel slides and trimmings. Trimmed with a fringe of steel beads and bugles at the squared end and a tassel (missing) at round end. There are two octagonal steel slides. Central opening 82 mm. (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade