Miser Purse Design Reimagined
Purse Form and Function
A Deco Era handbag carried over the arm miser style with a jeweled ring
an atypical miser purse date unknown
Large over the arm velvet miser purse with steel cut beads. I have seen it called a travel purse
1930’s miser style coin purse center ring with snap closures
inside view deco era coin purse miser
coin purse within a coin purse
1/2 miser purse
A Wise Way to Share a Purse
The beaded horse head was one half of a beaded two sided miser purse.
What I I have been told by another collector is that this is not that unfamiliar happening. When someone passes away and relatives love the same item sometimes there are difficulties. The solution in the case of a miser purse is to cut it in half and remake each half into a coin purse.
A Unique Miser Purse
Unique Miser Mesh Purse
Unique Miser Wrist Purse of a green metal mesh, probably made 1890-1920.
The experts on metal mesh purses have never seen another. It was probably custom-made for a member of a prominent banking family in Meridian, Mississippi. The purse style coincides with the growth of the city, during its “Golden Age” 1890-1930 when it became the largest and most prosperous center of manufacturing in Mississippi.
Close up miser rings
unique design dangle
Detail of slide on wrist strap
