Part of my mother's collection, which I was always intrigued by. It's a tiny and delicate construction of minute chain mail with a silver clasp in which are two tiny purple drops. Eminently impractical, it would certainly hold very little coinage, particularly as coins were generally larger at that time. (I've always imagined it was Edwardian but I may be completely wrong there). In fact, paper money then was about the size of a single page of the current Times newspaper. No doubt rescued from some church jumble sale or knickknack shop.
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