A little help dating these early 20th Century bags

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I have a new collection of bags and am finding pinpointing the age of these a little tough.

1) The purple zardozi peacock drawstring bag seems very Edwardian in style but I am assuming it's from later on.
2) The Chinese silk floral with 4 hinge frame has a little attached mirror. Stumped on it's age.
3) The nickel framed with woven body seems pre WWI.
4) And the last one which is black silk with faux tortoiseshell frame and a fabulous blue interior with a monogram seems very 1920's to me, possibly 30's.

Any assistance would be much appreciated :D
 

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The last one certainly looks 20s by the very art deco pattern of the silk and the finishing silk floral touches inside.

The lamé one looks like 20s or 30s.

The other with the jeweled frame and what appears to be a piece of embroidery from a Chinese robe could be 20s as well.

The 1st one is the most difficult as I remember seeing purses like this in the 60s but it could well be that these were being made
earlier than that.

It's difficult to be sure with these when one isn't handling them...but the majority appear 20s to me.

I am sure some others here will chime in with their opinions.
 
Thank you so much Mary Jane. The Zardozi one is a tough one. I came across one in Morocco recently that was very different to the 60's ones I had seen here. The chap swore it was his grandmother's and he was about 70, but then again it was a souk I was in ;)
 
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