Enamelled Sterling Silver Handbag with Foliate Motif
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A quality enamelled silver handbag purse, sterling silver, circa 1940's, detailed to the shaped handle with a finely, enamelled foliate motif, supporting a mesh style silver bag with attached, chain strap.
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- Sterling Silver - Sterling silver is a mixture of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% of another metal, usually copper. Fine silver is 99.9% pure silver, and is relatively soft and the addition of the very small amount of copper gives the metal enough strength and hardness to be worked into jewellery, decorative and household objects.
- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- Circa - A Latin term meaning 'about', often used in the antique trade to give an approximate date for the piece, usually considered to be five years on either side of the circa year. Thus, circa 1900 means the piece was made about 1900, probably between 1895 and 1905. The expression is sometimes abbreviated to c.1900.
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purses, material or decoration
- enamelled 3
- mesh, silver 73
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