Long purse
Category
Costume
Date
1850 - 1900
Materials
Textile
Measurements
228 mm (H)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349558
Summary
Red netted silk long purse covered overall with steel beeds with steel slides and trimmed with a tassel of twisted strands of steel beads and a dropper of steel with a central opening 114 mm. Cf. Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' pg.186 (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade