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Lot Description: Five Purse Examples , to include three heavily beaded miser's or stocking purses, the first with a sage green ground, the two straight end sections beaded in shades of grey and white in a design of flowers and leaves. Both ends are trimmed with steel panels and bobbles, and the purse is fitted with two silver metal sliders. Together with a good black crochet purse, with checkerboard beadwork, gold and silver metal beads further offset with some ruby background sections. Both straight ends have looped gold and silver metal bead fringes, and the two shaped metal sliders are also bi-coloured. The third purse is particularly well designed, the coral background supplemented by teal and green areas within the silver metal beadwork. Both ends have notable detail: the rounded end is fitted with a four looped tassel, each loop formed in circles with the addition of wirework loops near the ends, finished with a steel bead. The square end fringing is formed from the same mix of bead and wirework but in more solid format. The two sliders are shaped and incised. The remaining two purses, in similar shades of dark and light plum, are worked with metal threads to each end, both with paisley boteh design, and both with tassels formed from metal threads, one per purse being particularly elaborate. Condition Report: . The green purse lacks one bobble to one end, and the bobbles are rusty. The central crochet panel has holes. Purse 2 is in good order. Purse 3 has slight wear to the crochet under the rings, and the colour is faded in places. The metal thread purses have colour fade and tarnish. ARR: Categories: Fans