Stocking bag

Accessories

Inventory number
2019.3.18.5ad.AC.BG.C1810.FR
Description
Miser's purse embroidered with cut steel beads, with two steel rings that enable the purse to open and close, and decorated with cut steel tassels from both sides. 

Long stocking purses would have been worn over the waistband with the money 
slit under the clothes. 
Materials
Cut steel beads
Steel
Cotton thread
Origin
circa 1810 France
Dimensions
Width : 5 cm
Length : 28 cm