purse (clothing: accessories)

Small purse made of four pieces of material, two cream, one brown and one in a cream, brown and blue tweed pattern, with a cream fabric binding around the top edge and a pink floral fabric inside. There are two handles at the top, made of wound cream thread, and a cream and black thread tassell each side of the top opening, and a further tassell at the bottom of the purse.

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