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Black leather bifold wallet with snap tab

Object/Artifact

Women's bifold wallet in black leather immitation with a snap-tab closure on the front. The interior fits a billfold/note compartment with a woven textile lining, a clear acetate ID/photo window over a pocket, and a coin pocket closed by an envelope-style snap flap. Edges are stitched throughout; closures are metal snaps.

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2025.1.347

Used by Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez

No maker's mark is present, so manufacturer and origin cannot be established; catalogued descriptively. The full-featured layout — ID window, billfold, and snap coin pocket — is a common mid-twentieth-century pattern.

The Cabrera Arús family collection

Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez collecition

2025.1

9 cm

11 cm

2 cm

dimensions for wallet closed

Synthetic

Black synthetic leather (shell, pockets, tabs); woven textile (billfold lining); clear acetate/cellophane (ID window); plated metal (snaps).

Poor

Gertrudis Caraballo Gálvez

owner

Havana

Cuba

Caribbean

Central America

use