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Handbag

1940s
Medium/TechniquePlastic (possibly Bakelite), cloth, and metal.
DimensionsHeight x width: 21.5 x 37.5 cm (8 7/16 x 14 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Reva Ostrow
Accession number2013.1542
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsCostumes
Provenance2013, gift of Reva Ostrow, New York, NY to the MFA. (Accession date: September 25, 2013)
House of Saint Laurent
1970–1979
Sentinel bookends (one of a pair)
Walter von Nessen
designed 1940, manufactured about 1941–1942
Handbag
1930's?
Conservation status: Before treatment; Group shot: 2001.932.1-4
Dorothy Smith Coleman
1933
Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa)
designed 1932