Martin Van Schaak one of a kind leather & lizard skin handbag with gold knotted rope accents. This item is in good vintage condition. Please see pictures for normal vintage wear. Comes with a matching coin purse / wallet. Clasp in handbag and coin wallet is in working condition. This rare handbag has a compartment for your lipstick and all of your essentials. Circa 1950-1960’s “Martin Van Schaak began his career in the 1940s, when he sold his first purse to the wife of the Dutch ambassador. He soon rose to prominence in the high - end evening bag scene, competing with the likes of Judith Leiber, Roberta di Camerino, Koret, and Josef of Hollywood.” “Too rarefied to operate from anything as public as a showroom, he preferred to call on his society clientèle in their own homes. Any bag that bears his name is a fortuitous find.”—Tracy Tolkien, fashion collector, author and consultant. Mr. Martin Van Schaak, the most elusive master, whose customers—including Jacqueline Kennedy, Nancy Reagan, and Marlene Dietrich—represented the crème de la crème of New York, Los Angeles, Texas, and Washington society, was designing his novelty purses for over half a century, starting in the early 1940s. They say his wonderful, custom-made creations, made exclusively per order with the personality of a client in mind, have never been available in retail stores.”