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THBANTIQUE BEADED LADY'S PURSES, LOT OF THREE
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LiveMar 7, 2025
Jeffrey S. Evans & Assoc., Inc. info@jeffreysevans.com
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- Lot Description
ANTIQUE BEADED LADY'S PURSES, LOT OF THREE, comprising a likely French knitted purse with beaded design featuring vines and "LA FUMEE PASSE / MAIS / LE SOUVENIR RESTE" to center, and a pairing of black velvet purses done by the same hand with flower designs in blue, reddish-brown or purple, white, opalescent, and yellow microbeads, one with darker brown interior lining having ink signature that reads, "Greenfield March 13th 18[33?] Mary Ann Nash / Greenfield". 19th century. Signed purse 7 1/4" x 9 3/4" OA flat without straps.
Catalogue Note: Signature possibly identified as Mary Ann Nash of Greenfield, Massachusetts, who was born on September 25, 1808 to parents Quartus Nash (1778-1826) and Mary Wells (1778-1875). Mary Ann never married and lived with her mother and siblings for all of her life. She died on May 19, 1874 and is buried with most of her family at Lower Meadow Cemetery in Greenfield, MA.Condition
Good to very good visual condition with wear and other imperfections including losses to beads; French purse with scattered holes and several mends; black velvet purses with possibly replaced straps, unsigned example with shattering to applied fabric at top.
- Provenance
From the estate of Doris M. Bowman of the city of Alexandria, VA. Ms. Bowman was a textile curator at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, Washington, DC.
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