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Handbag

Handbag

  • Place of origin:

    France (possibly, made)

  • Date:

    early 1950s (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Engraved perspex

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Peggy Marchant

  • Museum number:

    T.632:1-1996

  • Gallery location:

    In store

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In the 1950s handbags became increasingly affordable for a range of women. Because of the invention of washable plastics, pastel colours were at last a possibility for everyone, not just the rich. In America, ‘lucite’, a new plastic that could be transparent or opaque, was used for moulding boxy handbags in a variety of ingenious and imaginative shapes, which were then ornately decorated and embellished. This clear perspex handbag engraved with bird and floral decoration is possibly French.

Physical description

Clear perspex handbag with engraved bird and floral decoration.

Place of Origin

France (possibly, made)

Date

early 1950s (made)

Artist/maker

unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Engraved perspex

Dimensions

Height: 24 cm with handle, Width: 18 cm, Depth: 8 cm

Object history note

With handkerchief T.632:2-1996.

Descriptive line

Engraved clear perspex handbag, possibly made in France, early 1950s

Materials

Perspex

Techniques

Engraved

Subjects depicted

Birds; Floral

Categories

Fashion; Accessories; Plastic; Women's clothes

Collection code

T&D

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