Wallet
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Leather, silver mounts
DATES
ca. 1885
DIMENSIONS
2 3/4 x 4 3/4 x 7/8 in. (7.0 x 12.1 x 2.2 cm)
MARKINGS
impressed in leather inside flap of first compartment: ABM BESTHOFF & SON/BROADWAY & 5th AVE.N.Y.
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
ACCESSION NUMBER
1992.204.3
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Robert J Mehlman
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Wallet, leather and metal with silver mounts. Rectangular wallet with rounded corners of dark brown textured leather. Back flap folds over to front where it is secured by a circular, hinged disc clasp of silver with applied, molded and engraved decoration of heron, cattails and birds. Each corner edge of the flap is mounted with silver boomerang-shaped mount with applied molded and engraved decoration of a heron, cattails and birds flanked by a dragonfly and a grasshopper. Wallet has accordion-fold interior with six compartments. The first compartment has fold-over flap and the fourth has a metal rim and closure.
CONDITION: Some wear to leather on edges; whitish residue from polish on leather near mounts. Oxidation to mounts; corrosion to metal mounts of fourth interior compartment and interior of hinged disc on front.
MUSEUM LOCATION
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