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Purse
Object/Artifact
"Purse with 4 bombe sides; flat top or lid. White silk over paste board. Each side, top and bottom are painted with dainty picture of basket of strawberries. Edges of each panel finished with pale silk ribbon; same ribbon forms little bows at each corner of opening and two loop handlea anchored front and back in the bows. Closed with pink silk plied cord loop and pink silk-covered disk button.About 5” deep."
G96.108
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1815 - 1835
User Age: Adult Gender: Female
Reticule
Purse
Starwberry
Painted Silk
5 in
Phebe or Mary Osborn
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