Featured Antique seed beaded coin purse

Hi dear Members,

Yesterday I bought this beautiful seed beaded coin purse for 3€. It's missing a cord strap, but I'm planing to find some suitable twisted cord as a replace and use it as my evening purse
It looks like the holding rings are ivory and I assume the purse was made in 19th century(?)

Maybe anyone could advise more specific decade, or if it is first half of the century, or second?

Thank you all

 

It's more likely the rings are Celluloid or similar. The pix do not show them well enough to know for sure.

It is a reticule.

 

I'll try to take photos of the rings tomorrow in a better light,
Thank You))

 

A lovely little find!
I agree with Bronwen about the rings likely being celluloid or some sort of plastic, they appear to have mold lines. Are the beads plastic as well?
Regardless, I think it's more likely from the first 1/3rd of the 20th century.
Another example:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/131238...1z8V_9ilDf6woNQt3b9qnr-rSljo_ivkaAocbEALw_wcB

 

No, the beads are glass.
Yes, there are lines at the centre, but the surface of the rings isn't ideally smooth, it has kind of scratches (don't know how to explain it correctly), but they don't look like mechanical, more like natural "inclusions", but I could be wrong...

 

I think the rings are bone. I'd bet on early 20th century for a date; that's when ladies did beadwork like this for "fun".

 

Yes, these flowers look very naive, even childish

 

It's a really sweet bag with some definite age. Like Evelyb., I believe that the rings are bone as well. Basing that on the 2nd photo here. There are some darker marks on the rings that look like natural inclusions.

The glass beads are great on this! Especially like the blue ones. I was wondering if this was European, it's a bit different than what you see in the U.S. Just a thought, could be wrong about that.

Very nice!

 

Have you tried cleaning the rings at all?

 

I've cleaned them today with a wet cloth only and tried to make better photos

 

I, too, thought it might be European!

 

I'm in the celluloid ring camp.

Could be, although it isn't a pattern style I recognize.

Not Dutch, we love bigger flowers, often in Renaissance/Baroque style cartouches against a background of a strong colour like burgundy.

 

Here are some old bone "crochet rings" that were sold on etsy, for comparison. They show the ridges at the midline, (which may be evidence that they were made on a lathe of some sort).


https://www.etsy.com/listing/143673...how_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

 

There would be a ribbon through those circles to hold the purse shut. I have a collection of antique beaded bags and have one similar. They're packed away at the moment. My mother had a bunch of those in her sewing box. Definitely celluloid. She'd crochet around them and use them as shade pulls like this:

 

My grandmother did that too.

 

Oh, that are really similar to mine, cool! Thanks for reference

 

And I can’t decide in which am I)))

 

Just wondering... you trust this seller's judgement?
That's a motley collection of rings.
I'm not saying the seller is wrong, just that their opinion should not be considered proof.

I'll leave it up to others to decide if OP's rings are bone or not... it's certainly not my area of expertise!

 

I'm in the bone camp !

 

Yup - those are blood channels. The slightly sideways holes, that is.