Featured Old dyed leather tooled? clutch - art noveau? deco? what......

Isn't that sweet? Envelope clutch. Strap to hold gloves. Design looks tooled. Not art deco. 1920s-ish at a guess.

Debora

 

Book, I LOVE it!!

 

LOVE IT !!! ... Joy.

 

The morning glories are very Arts & Crafts/ Art Nouveau. The shell design is earlier too, but the colors and shape are later 20s. So.... it's looking for a cloche hat and dropped waist dress to hit the town with. I wouldn't mess with it.

 

I wouldn't mess with it either.

Debora

 

As to age, think 'The Enchanted April.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enchanted_April

Debora

 

If your intention is to resell, let buyer deal with condition.

Debora

 

PS, as far as method of making the design; leather designs like this are not individually hand-tooled. The design would be stamped on the leather, by machine, and colored much as one would color a print on paper, using leather dyes.
I'm no fashion expert, but my Mom had things like this, from the 70s or later; it is a pretty timeless design.
I'd expect if it was made in the 1920s there would have been significant stiffening and cracking of the leather over the last 100 years. I'm just not seeing that much age.

 

Stamped. Thank you. Will remember distinction. And later possible; that frame certainly looks modern.

Debora

 

Search terms might be "embossed, hand-decorated, 1940s" just as a guess. I find some similar, and a contemporary version also; one described as Japanese:

 

The morning glory design is certainly not 1940s.

Debora

 

I'm not up to snuff on bags like this, but doesn't the tag look modern/newer?

 

I was thinking that too cxgirl .. It's that tag that bothers me the most ... Joy.

 

I think the leather is in excellent condition for being 1920s. The flowers look like Arts&Crafts / Art Nouveau era, but the leather itself looks 1940s to me, mostly by the condition shown.

 

No shoe polish on a purse!! BRASSO!! or NOTHING!!
NOTHING would be my preference..