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Reticule

Object/Artifact

Entirely hand stitched white PW cotton. Rectangular. Edged with small vandykes alternating with tiny pom poms. Embroidered with white cotton in large arabesque floral motifs in tambour-work, and satin and eyelet stitches. White cotton drawstrings with tassels, in casings. Each side signed at top “Hannah Spaulding - 1816”-- one tamboured, one running stitched-- and 1816. Lined with carefully pieced linen, signed inside. Bag is 10 3/4” long x 8 3/4” wide.

G94.037

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1816

User Age: Adult Gender: Female

Reticule

Purse

Vandykes

Pompoms

8 in

10-3/4 in

Spaulding, Hannah

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