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Handbag

late 1920s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Leather handbag with a purse and vanity mirror.

The handbag is of green and black grained leather in a hexagonal shape. With a brass frame and opens at the top with a green enamelled clasp. It has a lining of beige moiré.

With a central purse, and two side pockets containing powder wallets, one in matching beige moiré, and a second of black leather, probably from another handbag.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Handbag
  • Purse
  • Vanity Mirror
Materials and techniques
Leather lined with moiré silk, brass and enamel
Brief description
Leather handbag with a purse and vanity mirror, probably made in Great Britain, late 1920s
Physical description
Leather handbag with a purse and vanity mirror.

The handbag is of green and black grained leather in a hexagonal shape. With a brass frame and opens at the top with a green enamelled clasp. It has a lining of beige moiré.

With a central purse, and two side pockets containing powder wallets, one in matching beige moiré, and a second of black leather, probably from another handbag.
Credit line
Given by Major and Mrs Broughton
Object history
This handbag was owned by Cara Broughton, née Cara Leland Huttleston Rogers (1867-1939), who married Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929) in 1895. As Urban H. Broughton died before he could be elevated to a peerage, their eldest son Urban H.R. Broughton (1896-1966) became 1st Baron Fairhaven of Lode on 20 March 1929, while Cara became 1st Lady Fairhaven. This barony became extinct on Urban H.R.Broughton's death, but a later barony, Baron Fairhaven of Anglesey Abbey, co. Cambridge, was granted to him in 1961, with a remainder to his brother, Henry (1900-1973), to enable this title to continue after his death without male heirs.

This forms part of a large donation of late 19th and early 20th century garments and accessories (with a few historical textiles) donated to the Museum in 1972 by Cara's grandson and Henry's son, Major Ailwyn Broughton and his wife, a year before Ailwyn became Lord Fairhaven following his father's death.
Collection
Accession number
T.240 to B-1972

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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