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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sandra, post: 697589, member: 3335&quot;]With regard to the pinkish one, I think you are right with the basket idea.&nbsp; I recall in the 1940&#039;s-50&#039;s seeing similar, starched to within an inch of its life, with a tumbler inside with a small floral arrangement.&nbsp; It seems to me the stiffness to make the handle firm was achieved with a sugar/water combination or very heavy starch and hand molding the handle as it dried.&nbsp; Oh, the laborious efforts these homemakers did to enhance their homes!</p><p><br /></p><p>The second little purse with the silk ribbons may have been a Sunday School purse for a young girl, just large enough to hold her very own collection plate money and a hanky.&nbsp; </p><p>They would be lovely framed in a shadow box.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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