PURSE, COIN
c. 1892 - 1920Rectangular leather purse. Flap folds over along the longest side. Flap has metal brackets on corner & a clasp in the middle. On front of purse is a metal clasp. Purse folds out revealing 4 compartments. The middle compartment across the top is re-enforced with metal strips.
Text stamped on both parts of the clasp and on flap corner brackets. Also on corner brackets are 3 makers marks. The symbols are repeated on both corner pieces. They are an anchor, an italic I on its side and a lion.
In pencil a name is written on the inside of the flap.
Purse is in a fragile condition handle with care!!!!
Small leather coin purse with metallic clasp. Part of a three piece prayer set, Said to have contained photograph and prescription, but these items missing.Train ticket also was in the purse, now accessioned as AK1976-138.
Purse that belonged to Mabel Mary Dumsday. It was possibly purchased in 1903 or earlier when Mabel was living with her parents and sisters in Claremont.
The Dumsday family moved to Western Australia in 1892 from East Malvern in Victoria. They spent a number of years living in Claremont before moving to Forrestdale in 1908.
When donated, the purse contained a 1903 monthly train ticket from Claremont to Perth, a list of medicines, a fabric flower and a fragment of a photograph.
Mabel was an accomplished musician and would often sing with her sisters in the chorus of Gilbert and Sulivan operas in Perth, as well as featured regularly in the social papers between 1892 and 1908. She was also a devout person, helping to establish Forrestdale’s first Sunday School in 1908, and would often sing and play the piano for the children during classes.
Mabel never married, and after living in Forrestdale possibly up to the 1920s spent her final years living at Bruce Street in Nedlands. Mabel passed away 19 May, 1953 aged 72.
The purse was handed down to her niece Lilian Ursula Skeet, daughter of her sister Lillian Maude and Alfred Tunbridge Skeet. Ursula, as she was known, collected and looked after many of the family treasures.
Details
Details
inside flap [M M DUMSDAY] clasp text [JM] brackets on flap text [CPB]
This object is part of a collection of items associated with a person or family who have played a significant role in the economic, community or social development of the City of Armadale. This can include holding key political or social positions within the community, being a key contributor or member of a community organisation, a strong contributor to improving the well-being of the local community, a prominent figure in a local business or industry, developer of new industries or activities or someone who grew up in the area and moved away and had a noteworthy career or life.
