"I Pray God to be my Guide 1637", a drawstring purse worked in coloured beads with pairs of birds flanking branches of stylised acorns, against a tawny brown beadwork ground, the inscription at the top worked in white beads, the drawstring area of salmon pink silk, bound with light brown silk, lined with chamoix leather, embellished with three pale green silk tassels at the bottom--4¾in. (12cm.) square, English

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"I Pray God to be my Guide 1637", a drawstring purse worked in coloured beads with pairs of birds flanking branches of stylised acorns, against a tawny brown beadwork ground, the inscription at the top worked in white beads, the drawstring area of salmon pink silk, bound with light brown silk, lined with chamoix leather, embellished with three pale green silk tassels at the bottom--4¾in. (12cm.) square, English
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