On View
Not on viewmiser's purse
Date1800s
Terms
- Purses
- Metal
- Steel
- Silk Fiber
- Beads
- Bedford (Massachusetts)
Dimensions4.45 × 40.64 cm (1 3/4 × 16 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Mr. Edgar J. Rollins (1945)
Object numberPER1105.2
DescriptionStocking purse or miner's purse. Knit gray silk adorned with long lines of silver beads. Silver or tassels at either end: at one end, six short tassels all emerging from a silver ball; at the other, 14 teardrop shapes emerge from silver mesh. At this end, silver beads spell out the letters: "SCA[?] 1888".
Collections
- Historic Clothing
Object number: PER1108
Object number: PER141
Object number: PER1101
Object number: PER1105
