Dating and describing printed purse with mystery zipper

[Robin of Frocksley]

This purse has me baffled. The painting print is lovely, but I have no idea how to describe it. The interior appears to be leather, and there are no labels at all. No markings on the hardware except the zipper. Thanks!

 

[poppysvintageclothing]

I do remember buying wallets like this as Christmas presents in the early 1970s.

The ones I purchased were made in Italy and were being sold in the 60s and early 70s.

 

[retro ruth]

I couldn't resist IDing the painting for you:

http://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-corot/souvenir-of-mortefontaine-1864

 

[Robin of Frocksley]

I couldn't resist IDing the painting for you:

http://www.wikiart.org/en/camille-corot/souvenir-of-mortefontaine-1864

Thank you so much! Wonderful help.

 

[retro ruth]

It's quite easy to do. I used your image of the painting from the bag, to search by image in google images, and it came up.

 

[Robin of Frocksley]

It's quite easy to do. I used your image of the painting from the bag, to search by image in google images, and it came up.

Apologies for my total lack of google skills. Thanks again, I'm trying to learn how to do better research and this is very helpful

 

[retro ruth]

No need to apologise! I just thought I'd share the method.

 

[Rue_de_la_Paix]

That is quite lovely! I have had a few small purse accessories such as compacts, glass cases, etc. that had a similar technique of printing fine art on what I believe was a lustrous and very tightly woven silk or silk like fabric. Mine all dated from the 1950s to very early 1960s if I recall correctly.

It is a great find.

 

[Pinkcoke]

This is very similar in shape, size and materials to a bag I have for some matching shoes, both c.1962 from Hong Kong.

I would call it a 1960's deep rectangular box handbag with screenprinted painting and bail clasp (a drawer handle term!)

 

[retro ruth]

My hunch on this would be 60s too. Good call on bail Melanie, it really does look like a bail handle

 

[BonniesVintageClothesLine]

Early 1960s.

 

[Robin of Frocksley]

Thank you all, I'll go with 60's

 

[laurenm]

@ Ruth.....if you wouldn't mind, can you explain how you did the image search?
Thanks alot,
P.S. I love the purse

 

[retro ruth]

Sure Lauren.

You go to Google Images https://images.google.com/

Then click on the little camera sign, which is for 'search by image'

You can then either upload an image from your computer, or paste the url of an image already on the internet (right-click and choose "Copy Image Location" or "Copy Image URL")

I took a screenshot of Robin's bag picture, cropping to just the painting part. This is really easy to do on a Mac (cmd-shift 4, then draw a square around the bit you want to screenshot). On a PC you might need photo editing software to crop the screenshot, not sure.

Then I uploaded my screenshot to google images, and got this result:

Even though the bag doesn't show the full painting, and the colours are different, google images still guessed right. If it can't guess, it will still show you similar images, so you may find what you are looking for.

Google images is really useful for research.

 

[cmpollack]

I have two of these c 1960 fine art print on black satin purses, one from Stylecraft and one from Faye Mell Designs of Miami. Very elegant, just like yours...

 

[laurenm]

wow, thanks so much.....so very useful...