Vintage Tortoise shops Shell Lucite Handbag

shops This is a lovely Tortoise Lucite Handbag in good vintage condition, with some surface scratches. This particular handbag is styled witha crystal like top and hinged tortoise handles.
The Tortoise Pattern was said to be one of the more popular colors and costly styles in it's day. Most likely due to the colors ability to lend more privacy of the contents in your bag and the neutral tone would compliment most anyone's wardrobe.
The plastic that makes Lucite, copyright of DuPont is actually a form of plexiglass. We are grateful that DuPont coined Lucite as it lends glamour to the classy style of the Lucite Hand Bags.
This particular bag measures approximately 8.5”, 4.5”, 4.5”