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Beaded zip coin purse — geometric zigzag/diamond pattern
Object/Artifact
Small flat rectangular coin purse densely surfaced in rounded plastic beads over fabric, with a top zipper (brown tape, metal pull). The beadwork forms an allover geometric design: horizontal zigzag/chevron bands and a central row of diamonds enclosing rosette centers, worked in cream/pale-yellow, orange, coral-red, black, and green beads on an orange ground. Back not shown. Beadwork largely intact with minor loss/soiling; zipper functional.
2025.6.38
Belonged to Mirta Martínez Forteza
A mid-20th-century novelty beaded coin/cosmetic purse of molded-plastic seed beads sewn over cloth — a type widely produced and exported from Eastern Europe (and Japan) in the 1950s–60s, comparable examples dated to the 1960s.
The Martínez Suquet family collection
Mirta Martínez Forteza collection
2025.6
Mirta Suquet
Gift
Date: circa 1960s; tentative (consistent with the type; within the collection period as an import). Place: Poland (tentative)
8 cm
14 cm
0.8 cm
Beaded body (front/back panels over fabric) with top zipper with pull.
Beads
Fabric
Molded plastic beads on woven fabric backing; plastic zipper. Bead material plastic (mid-century type).
Good
Mirta Martínez Forteza
owner
Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use, acquisition
Type confirmed (mid-century plastic-bead zip coin purse; 1960s comparables on Etsy/1stDibs). Poland origin not corroborated.