currency container; purse (clothing: accessories)

Small bag for currency. The purse is formed of a plain, leather pouch with a tassle at the bottom that is fastened to two plaits of leather. Threaded onto the plaits of leather is a lid that is decorated in different colour leather.
label: Church Missionary Society label

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