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Title: Miser's purse
Date: 1840–60
Culture: American
Medium: cotton, metal
Credit Line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of J. Townsend Russell, 1959
Accession Number: 2009.300.2943
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