Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1975.083.071 |
Object Name |
Purse, Change |
Title |
Expanding Gate-Style Coin Purse |
Lexicon category |
3: Personal Artifacts |
Date |
1910s |
Year Range from |
1910 |
Year Range to |
1920 |
Artist |
Unidentified maker |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Unknown |
Description |
Woman's expanding gate-style metal mesh coin purse, 1910s. The neck of the purse has a ring of extension bars so that the purse can be opened up and then drawn up again with ease. When closed, there is a hinged silvertone cap at the top. It is decorated with a fancy pressed design. No maker's identification seen. The metal mesh is not lined. Its bottom edge has three pendant steel balls. The sides of the gate area have two joining rings so there must have once been a handle (which was likely a linked chain). |
Makers mark |
None |
Provenance |
Unknown. Last owned by Rosemary Kennedy, of Owen Sound, Grey County. Her parents were Robert Pollock Kennedy Jr. and Rhoda (Ross) Kennedy. Her grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pollock Kennedy Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. George Ross, all of Owen Sound. May have been inherited from her paternal aunt, Hazel Kennedy, of Owen Sound. |
Collection |
Personal Gear |
Material |
Metal |
Dimensions |
W-3.5 L-10 cm |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Kennedy, Hazel Kennedy, Rhoda Jean Kennedy, Rosemary |
Subjects |
Purses Coins |