- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0128 a,b
- Description
- Japanese handsewn embroidered silk card holders. (a) 15.6 x 12.1 brown silk with gold and coloured overall designs, frogs, snails, dragonflies, fireflies, mantis, saerda, spiders. Folded over, 2 pockets from front materials, lined with pale blue , 2 more pockets. (b) 23.0 x 23.0, fully lined, f…
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- Title
- Card Holder
- Date
- 1870 – 1890
- Material
- fibre
- Description
- Japanese handsewn embroidered silk card holders. (a) 15.6 x 12.1 brown silk with gold and coloured overall designs, frogs, snails, dragonflies, fireflies, mantis, saerda, spiders. Folded over, 2 pockets from front materials, lined with pale blue , 2 more pockets. (b) 23.0 x 23.0, fully lined, folded to form envelope. Inside purple "shot" silk with pocket gold stitching. Outside pale blue with embroidered flowers and bamboo leaves.1.5 long thread forms closure with .6 x .7 flat piece of ivory. Very finely made.
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 105.02.0128 a,b
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- Date
- 1873 – 1900
- Material
- skin; fibre; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1014
- Description
- Sam Ward's leather hat case, purple satin, concave lid, leather handle on lid, oval base tapered outward, leather strap joins lid and base with keyless brass lock, tooled flowers around latch on base, interior quilted purple satin, removable molded seat for hat, blue elastic draw strings to secure,…
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- Title
- Hatbox
- Date
- 1873 – 1900
- Material
- skin; fibre; metal
- Description
- Sam Ward's leather hat case, purple satin, concave lid, leather handle on lid, oval base tapered outward, leather strap joins lid and base with keyless brass lock, tooled flowers around latch on base, interior quilted purple satin, removable molded seat for hat, blue elastic draw strings to secure, blue glued fabric interior walls.
- Subject
- households
- clothing accessory
- Sam Ward
- Credit
- Gift of Sam Ward, Banff, 1974
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1014
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