Framed Beaded Eleanor Purse

I will!!! I'm excited to know. It's not as expensive to appraise come to find out. It will take a few days. I will let you all know. Thank you for all of your feedback!❤
 
I think it's very obvious why I came to this forum... I'm not disappointed with any of the feedback I'm receiving. I just have questions, I'm sorry if that was perceived as being naive. Like I said before, I'm looking for answers that maybe somebody could possibly give me. Any answers about the origination of this purse.
 
pinky-a-gogo said:
What Barbara is saying in a very polite way--is that this purse is not worth an appraisal fee. They will tell you that it is not worth much. And will not be able to tell you why it was framed or how to find the family. They will have to "unframe" it to look inside for a label. There most likely isn't a label or if there is one it probably will say Made in Hong Kong.
They did a lot of bead work in the 50s/60s era.

The clasp is gold tone metal, not 14k. The purse is a 1960s beaded kiss clasp purse.

The fitted by MF label on the back is the framers initials. It is framed very nicely. I would bet it was a keepsake, most likely a loved ones purse that they wanted to display.

I have many, many beaded purses framed. They are custom framed with suede mats. No significance to me other than they are pretty.

I will post a few authentic beaded 1920 framed bags below so you can see the difference. Look at the closures, the bead size, etc.


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Christina Buell said:
Thank you all for your feedback. I think I'm going to take it to get truly appraised. I just don't want to ruin the Integrity without finding out first what it might be. Someone spent a lot of money to put it in here and keep it protected. I would like to find the owner, if not the family. I don't see an Eleanor label but after my research it looks like it's Eleanor Style. The beads are glass because I hear them against a thick glass pane on the framing. That's all I can be sure of at this point. The rhinestones, if that's what they are, are in excellent shape and give off a tremendous shine! I'm just really curious about this purse.
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Christina Buell said:
View attachment 108922 Here's one appraisal reply.
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Hi there! I just wanted to tell you - as a friend not a dealer - that that isn't necessarily an appraisal, not even an informal, in-house appraisal. Please be suspect because if you had to sell this or insure or have a value for your estate, this would not suffice. Without the proper appraisal formatting (and there is, from an informal in-house to a full appraisal), it is merely hearsay much like our discussion here, really. Also, from this message, it's unclear if the appraiser actually handled the bag, what photos they saw and used as comparable in their assessment, etc. That they weren't able to give you even market pricing comparable (recent eBay or Sotheby's auctions, for example), is not an appraisal; a true appraisal will give that at the very least.

There is a checklist of how an appraiser processes the information when doing an appraisal.

So I'd be careful when selling it. I'd not insure it for what something similar went for on eBay... Again, I want to help. I'm currently working on becoming a certified appraiser and methodology and ethics is AS important as what you know about the item.
 
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