- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Purse of chamois leather with two steel rings. [MJD 25/05/2010]
- Long description
- Purse of chamois leather with two steel rings. The purse is long oval shaped with a slit opening in the centre. The two steel rings are positioned between the slit and the pouch ends. One end is decorated with loops of transparent beads. [MJD 25/05/2010]
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire Oxford
- Cultural groups
- English
- Person
- Maker Unknown Maker
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Patience Watters
- PRM source J. H. Luckett
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1963
- Date collected
- By 1963
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: 1964
- Materials and processes
- Material Antelope Skin Animal, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Steel Metal, Material Bead, Process Stitched, Process Forged (Metal), Process Strung
- Dimensions
- Length: max 302 mm, Width: max 38 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1964.2.25
- Research and responses
http://www.hants.gov.uk/museum/bags/bags02.html: Small knitted, netted or crocheted silk or cotton coin purses are also characteristic of this period and were known as stocking purses, or 'miser' purses. By mid century these had metal fastenings and the whole was often made of a delicate metal chain, which supported sovereigns and half sovereigns, hence the term 'sovereign purse'. Chamois leather was also used, together with metal rings to secure the coins. Sovereign cases were of circular metal design, with an internal spring to release a coin at a time. It is worth noting that in North America handbags are still called purses, which may refer back to their introduction there from Europe after 1800, when they will still primarily coin purses. [AP 25/09/2006]
1964.2.25
Purse of chamois leather with two steel rings. [MJD 25/05/2010]
1964.2.25
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