Feb 11, 2021 | News, Purse Tales
... "I was a wife and you killed my husband, I was a mother and you deprived me of my children"... With these words, pronounced by the Queen Marie Antoinette, echoing in my mind, it was with intense emotion that I acquired and held in my hands this letter case that...
Aug 14, 2020 | News, Purse News
Looking for a way to keep track of the purses you have in your collection? Need a way to sort the list by type or age? Try this spreadsheet created by APCS member Kathy...
Jul 25, 2020 | Links, News, Purse News
This is a link to an amazing compact site with compact purses. A very funky couple with their bio on it too. Thanks to the APCS member who referred the website! http://www.davidandnoelle.net/index.htm My favorite page on the website is this one:...
Jul 14, 2020 | News, Purse News, Research
This is a snippet from the article written by Albert & Beate Friedhoff on their souvenir purse collection. Please click on the PDF to see the rest of the article, and lots of fascinating photos: Alfred article 2020
Oct 5, 2019 | News, Purse News
This Pa. woman owns 3,000 handbags, and she keeps them in an army bunker By Elizabeth Wellington, The Philadelphia Inquirer Ilene Hochberg Wood’s collection of 3,000 handbags — the majority of which dwell in a 2,400-square-foot Quonset hut on her Lehigh Valley estate...
Jan 14, 2019 | News, Purse News
"The Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshop), which grew out of The Vienna Secession, was founded in 1903 by Koloman Moser and Josef Hoffmann. It was the beginning of the Modernist Movement. Artistic production and of “total artwork” of utilitarian items was the goal. The...
