Brown leather bag gold accents and hardware

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A brown suede handbag with a convertible strap. The front flap of the bag is made from two panels of 5.75” long brown suede that fastens to the body of the bag with a metal snap. There is a central decoration of two horizontal bands of .25” wide dark brown vinyl leather on the flap. Each band end is inserted into a gold metal eyelet that leads to the interior of the flap and the top band has a decorative 1” wide metal buckle. Gold metallic piping covers the center seam of the two suede panels. Attached to the purse are two .75” wide brown convertible straps with rounded edges. They are composed of two layers of faux leather sewn together and are 16.25” long. Two metal snaps are on each strap, at the strap’s end and one snap is on the strap, closer to the body of the bag.

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