Tennants Auctioneers
Lot 2168
A Quantity of Early 20th Century Costume and Accessories, comprising a black moleskin long cape with metallic brocade lining and white fur collar, Townsdale black wool double breasted coat with astracan collar, black crepe coat with collar, single button fastening and waist tie,leather handbags and woolwork purse, straw hats, brown jacket, bone fan etc(rail and box)Moleskin coat - Patches or wear to the moleskin, particularly around the edges, a hole in the seam where the collar joins the moleskin, a wear to the collar and a small hole, fraying to the lining particularly near the hem and edgesTownsdale coat - Three small hole to the lining near collar, stitching around buttonhole is coming undone slightly, there is a small hole in the armhole lining where two ties are attachedThird black coat - Several holes to the lining and one seam coming undone slightlyBrown jacket - Possibly had collar and cuffs removed as patches of stitching remainingStraw hats - Some staining and discolouration the hat bands of both hats, the band inside the cream hat is coming undone, a mended hole to the black hatFloral hankie - one frayed edgeBrown leather bag with gold coloured clasp - several scratches and wear to leather, some staining to fabric sections of liningSimilar bag - general wear all over with spot marks to front and backThird brown bag - badly scuffed with large scratch to front,two hole where missing fastenings would have been, missing patch of leather to underside of flap, front pocket missing stitching, indents to sides where metal has rubbed against the leather, missing leather tab from clasp, has key, holes in internal pocket lining, wear, splits and scratches to internal leatherBlue bad - Scuffing to bottom corners, scratched to gold tone metal partsChecked bag - generall scuffing, indents around the fastening from the press stud and some staining to the liningWoolwork purse - some small sections of missing stitched, trim coming away from purse, staining and discolouration to the liningFan - discolouration and staining all over, sections of missing goldwork stitching and sections of the remaining metal is tarnishedTwo small purses, one suede the other red and a heart shaped silver coloured compact
