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miser's purse
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miser's purse

Terms
  • Purses
  • Metal
  • Steel
  • Silk Fiber
Dimensions3.18 × 27.94 cm (1 1/4 × 11 in.)
Object numberPER1108
DescriptionStocking purse or miser's purse. Knit with greenish gray silk adorned with silver beads. Steel tassels at each end likely used to match one another. Now, one end is damaged: at undamaged end, four spiraled lengths of silver beads emerge from a conical fastener; at the damaged end, two lengths of silver beads remain, and the beads have become severely tarnished. Two multi-sided silver rings.
Collections
  • Historic Clothing
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Object number: PER2136.1
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Object number: PER109
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Object number: PER1105.2
1800s
miser's purse
Object number: PER1101
miser's purse
Object number: PER1105
purse
Object number: PER135
1800s
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Object number: 2006.7.1
1850-1890
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Object number: COS84.36
Late 1800s
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Object number: 1991.1
1870 - 1899
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Object number: COS84.97
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