Vintage women's handbags

Collecting antiques is very exciting, but some collectibles require special attention. Clothes, bags and other accessories, in contrast to silverware coins and watches, are more susceptible to external influences. Antique handbags are afraid of moisture, sunlight, various insects ...

Therefore, it is especially difficult to keep things like this. We can see on flea markets and in antique shops a great variety of silver and gold coins, silverware and gold cigarette cases, mantel clocks and candlesticks. These things remain quietly for hundreds of years, but handbags are less fortunate.

Bag in the photo above - End of the 18th century
Stsmka from below - mid-18th century

Antique bags are very rare, and they are not highly valued due to the fact that few rich people collect collections of clothes and accessories. Such things are more interesting for museums, fashion historians and various enthusiasts who do not have the opportunity to pay a lot of money for an old bag or vintage dress.

As a result, antique bags, each of which is unique, are incomparably cheaper than the so-called contemporary art, which in most cases cannot be called art. Russian rich people pay millions of dollars for dubious things, and old Russian bags are kept in the Metropolitan Museum and other foreign museums.

Antique Russian bag with a double-headed eagle.
Gold embroidery, pearl silk. End of the 18th century.

Handbag from the beginning of the 18th century.