miser's purse

Date1800s

Terms

Purses
Metal
Steel
Silk Fiber
Beads

Dimensions3.18 × 44.45 cm (1 1/4 × 17 1/2 in.)

MarkingsLabel: "purse for small pieces of money".

Credit LineGift of Miss Mary E. Tarbell (1949)

Object numberPER2136.1

DescriptionStocking purse or miser's purse. Yellow-green knit silk interspersed with plentiful steel beads. At each end, beaded spiral tassels of steel emerge from a conical fastener. Two steel rings, each impressed with a leaf pattern. Two pennies found in purse (1917 and 1944).

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