PURSE MUSEUM’S FAVORITES
ART NOUVEAU ERA PURSE
a visual collection of some of my favorite purses
EGYPTIAN REVIVAL 1920’s PURSE made in France
rare mint condition Regency purse with pinch beck glided frame
Rare mint condition Regency Miser purse Lucet stitched with metal
rare mint condition spider web Regency Miser Purse
SILK SATIN STITCH PURSE with MEDIEVAL THEME
Unique French Steel Beaded Purse 1920’s
Embroidered Netted Miser Purse Late Regency- Early Victorian
PURSES WITH PROVENANCE
The ROSENFELD PURSE
Every once in a while, you are lucky enough to find a very special piece. Sometimes it is because of the materials used, sometimes the theme, sometimes just because it is. This is one of those purses.
I PURCHASED THIS FROM SUE…it was her grandmother’s
the purse of LILLIAN LANSHE
(very French) Her grandmother was one of 10 children and only two girls! In the family there were nuns, lawyers, doctors, and priests. She married a banker. They traveled all over Europe, and Sue remembers, going to see them off on a Pan Am flight and when she was little.
Lilly was born in 1890’s - her Rosenfeld purse is Mid 20th Century
She had a horse named Cherry, and Lillian rode in a surrey with fringe. Sue, her granddaughter used to love listening to the stories her grandmother told of a family that loved to garden, play bridge, and gourmet clubs…. perfect memories to hold in a special purse.
Top Rosenfeld Purse
Rosenfeld purse Mid Century
An IROQUOIS BEADED PURSE
From the Lake Champlain area, and made for tourists in late 1800
A PURSE with HISTORY - telling the story of an American Family
Made for tourists in late 1800’s by the indigenous people in the lake Champlain .. as told to me by David Vickers
“ It belonged to my late wife, Kathryn Collier Vickers, who grew up in Port Henry, New York, on the shores of Lake Champlain. She inherited it from her mother, Ruth Richardson Collier, who also lived most of her life in Port Henry. Grandmas Ruth, in turn, got it from her mother Edith Foote Richardson, who was born in 1894, and died at age 94, I believe, in Port Henry, where she was raised.
Their lineage dates directly back to the Mayflower and includes such historical figures as Nathaniel Foote, John Proctor (the last "witch" hung in the Salem Witch Trials) and Solomon Foote, who was a member of Lincoln's cabinet. They were quite a family, but that should provide adequate provenance for your purse.”
Iroquois beaded purse late 1800s
