Long purse
Category
Costume
Date
1850 - 1860
Materials
Textile
Measurements
420 mm (H)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349560
Summary
Blue and cream crocheted silk long purse ornamented with steel beads in bands of stylised flowers, leaves and buta with steel slides decorated with chevron patterns and trimmed with a looped tassel of steel beads and bugles and a fringe of steel beads and bugles and a central opening of 95 mm. (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade