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Collections > Textiles > Women's Purse

Women's Purse

Brown velvet purse with red lining. Elaborate raised pattern, formal leaves. In pinks, yellows, blues and green. Two flaps, fringe of glass beads with border of white and dark blue.

Place: England

Object Type: purse

Period: Victoria

Broad Date: Late Victorian

Actual Date: c. 1880

Century: 19th century

Materials: Velvet, Wool, Beads

Museum Accession Number: 1966.7/EMB.562.A