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Actions Displays	Details Remove from selection Add to selection Object number COLEM:2007.63 Institution name Colchester Collections Object name handbag Description Crocodile skin handbag dating from the 1850's. The handbag has been in the Reeves family since the 1850s, the donor remembers her grandmother using it. It originally belonged to Amy Absolon (nee Chambers) from Colkirk in Norfolk. She was born in 1862 and married in 1890. She is known to have travelled extensively in Europe and to have visited South Africa twice. Production date 1850 Production period Victorian Material skin, textile, metal Dimensions width: 290.00 mm height: 215.00 mm Location In Store Tags Comments Add tag(s) Add comment

Object number

COLEM:2007.63
Institution name

Colchester Collections
Object name

handbag
Description

Crocodile skin handbag dating from the 1850's. The handbag has been in the Reeves family since the 1850s, the donor remembers her grandmother using it. It originally belonged to Amy Absolon (nee Chambers) from Colkirk in Norfolk. She was born in 1862 and married in 1890. She is known to have travelled extensively in Europe and to have visited South Africa twice.
Production date

1850
Production period

Victorian
Material

skin, textile, metal
Dimensions
Location

In Store

Details