Hi Jean and everyone I went a-googling and found this info (the bit about the coin purses is about midpage) https://www.hants.gov.uk/museum/bags/bags02.html
and I recall making a 'coin kitty' (based on the coin miser - with legs and ears added <g>) from one of the current magazines, and thinking it was Piecework, went to their site - no knitted kitty but some cool knitted lace patterns http://www.interweave.com/needle/projects/knitting.asp
The purse is on page 196:
http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/08942/0184?id=f21bc0cf9c0582ae My grandmother had one of these purses many years ago completedly covered in steel beads (wasn't interested in things like that as a child so I expect it
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