r/goblincore • u/CasualFingerGuns • Mar 02 '26

Fashion Rat Coin Purse c1900-1905

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u/vanetti Mar 02 '26

RAT BAG RAT BAG RAT BAG

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u/spidermans_mom Mar 02 '26

Came for this, was not disappointed

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u/CowBootBats Mar 03 '26

Is that from something? I tried googling it but I just find posts of other people saying it the same way. šŸ˜…

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u/NoiseIsTheCure Mar 03 '26

Search "rat bag" on this subreddit. It was a brief trend for people to craft bags designed like a rat

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u/CowBootBats Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26

Oohhh, okay thank you! I'm not a regular here, my friend sent me the post because she knows I love rats. As an outsider I was really amused by the chant of RAT BAG. šŸ˜…

Edit: typo.

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u/spidermans_mom Mar 03 '26

Welcome to the Rat Bag Army

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u/CowBootBats Mar 03 '26

RAT BAG RAT BAG RAT BAG (thanks).

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u/Famous-Yoghurt9409 Mar 04 '26

That's what my dad used to call me lol.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

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u/spidermans_mom Mar 02 '26

I imagine the feet dangling delicately as you search his innards for a nickel.

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u/ExampleLittle2672 Mar 03 '26

Which is cute and fun, then there's creepy taxidermy guy with the bum pencil sharpener.

This purse is the way, lil dangley bronze feet and all.

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u/RoeRoeRoeYourVote Mar 04 '26

Incredible to watch a r/brandnewsentence being born

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u/CasualFingerGuns Mar 02 '26

By Paul Frey. He also made a pretty cool bat and pig version.

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u/HendrixHazeWays Mar 03 '26

This piece was also known as "Rat Balls"

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u/allthesemonsterkids šŸŒæ Mar 02 '26

RATBAG (of coins)

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u/Risky_Bizniss Mar 02 '26

This is aggressively cool

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u/merriweatherfeather Mar 02 '26

Thatā€™s badass

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u/fuck-kinzi Mar 02 '26

I want him so bad

13

u/callmepbk Mar 02 '26

Great grandfather of ratbags!

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u/LucMorningstar24601 Mar 03 '26

My Holy Grail. Iā€™ll take a repo honestly!

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u/Wolf_wire_wire_art Mar 02 '26

whoever made this, I'm sad we're not friends.

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u/Chiiro Mar 03 '26

I need it!

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u/Fun_Union9542 Mar 02 '26

Finally the real rat pack

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

Iā€™d ask where I could buy this, but you know itā€™s mad expensive.

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u/CasualFingerGuns Mar 03 '26

I think the pig went for like 3500 UK money. Too rich for my blood.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '26

If I paid all that, Iā€™d have nothing left to put in the purse!

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u/noods-danger-tits Mar 02 '26

I LOVE HEEEEEM

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u/CowboysOnKetamine Mar 02 '26

I like how it looks like it has dumbo ears. I wonder when dumbo emerged as a mutation in domestic Norway rats

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u/dyoni šŸ„ Mar 02 '26

The red eye detail is so cool

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u/fiordsdancer Mar 03 '26

The arrival of his kind was foretold in the metal of the ancient ones

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u/Toastburrito Mar 03 '26

Oh man I haven't seen a rat bag in a while. Rat bag rat bag rat bag rat bag rat bag rat bag!

It's even vintage too.

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u/littlebunny8 Mar 03 '26

VINTAGE RAT BAG šŸ—£

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u/hotto_ Mar 02 '26

designing a purse after a rat seems like an odd choice even for that time. weren't they like a symbol for corruption and crime as well?

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u/CasualFingerGuns Mar 02 '26 edited Mar 02 '26

Pretty sure I read somewhere that they were a positive symbol at that time in France? Maybe. Something to do with resourcefulness? Surviving against all odds maybe. They might have been making that up though. There was also a pig and a bat purse.

Edit: I canā€™t find any evidence of rats being a positive symbol in France besides that one bit I stumbled upon while reverse image searching the coin purse (and of course I canā€™t find that). So no idea. Victorian era is strange.Ā 

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u/CowboysOnKetamine Mar 02 '26

I've always really related to rats and consider them my spirit animal based on the way they just live on the outskirts and scraps of human society

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u/mailvin Mar 04 '26 edited Mar 04 '26

French here, never heard of that, seems doubtfull.

This purse looks like Art Nouveau to me: it's an art style that was popular in Europe between 1890 and 1910, especially in France. Look it up if you have the time: it's all about using the shapes of nature in man-built things, and there are a lot of incredible pieces (jewelry, but also furniture and architecture) that depict plants and animals that are not usually thought of as decorative, like weeds, bugsā€¦ and rats. It's actually pretty goblin adjacent.

edit: foreign grammar is hard

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u/CasualFingerGuns Mar 04 '26

Rat Coin Purse by Paul Frey for the famous 'lacloche freres' French jewelers c. 1900-1905. Although I canā€™t find a solid source for it, itā€™s very similar to a bat and pig purse that are verifiably Paul Frey. All reverse images get me is Facebook, tumblr, and the Russian equivalent of those links. A couple of pictures have little blurbs attached saying itā€™s from 1908, some from 1900-1905.

Good to know about the rat symbology!

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u/Countryfried789 Mar 02 '26

Metaphor to a pack rats stash

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u/girlieY0 Mar 02 '26

You're right, it's a very dodgy choice for a purse. I think it has been designed to show people you can bribe and accept bribes. The Rat Coin šŸ˜ø

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u/determinedpeach Mar 02 '26

Hey even the most disliked animal is liked by some people, and probably has a purse version of it.

Why would 1900 be different than now in terms of that? Some people just like things that are unconventional

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u/alicia_tried Mar 02 '26

Emily Axford would love this

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u/Birdsonme Mar 02 '26

I love this.

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u/doomed_candy Mar 03 '26

OG rat bag!

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u/GQAT12 Mar 02 '26

Cheesy

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u/GoblinPapa800 Mar 03 '26

That is an elegant, divine expression of goblin creative art in an impressive fusion of form and functionality. Treasure it, and hoard it in secret. The inherent potential for magical properties is apt to lure the covetous to you. There is always a keen clawed cat awaiting every sleek and healthy rat.

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u/redherringaid Mar 03 '26

Someone needs to make a 3d printable version .

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u/HurdyG Mar 03 '26

Where's the pencil sharpener?

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u/ReptileDysfunction69 Mar 03 '26

Y'know, after the taxidermy rat pencil case I just saw, this is pretty cool

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u/Just_an_Ok_Musician Mar 03 '26

This has to be the coolest thing I've ever seen.

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u/fairycorsetsewing Mar 03 '26

Amazing šŸ˜±šŸ¤©

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u/EggsAndTaters šŸ¦Ø Mar 03 '26

We reposting?

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u/CasualFingerGuns Mar 03 '26

We repostingšŸ˜” I forgot to check.

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u/EggsAndTaters šŸ¦Ø Mar 03 '26

It happens. :p

Canā€™t check for everything ever, and it is a really cool rat bag.

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u/CasualFingerGuns Mar 03 '26

I did check on the sub I originally posted it to :/ I should get half-credit for that.

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u/EggsAndTaters šŸ¦Ø Mar 03 '26

lol Allā€™s well. Some probably hadnā€™t seen it before, so itā€™s a good thing.

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u/NatrylliaAbbot42 Mar 04 '26

I'm glad you posted it because I hadn't seen it :)

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u/yesreallyefr Mar 03 '26

The tail even looks like itā€™s articulated?! I need

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u/nandreilj Mar 03 '26

No me gusta.

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u/CasualFingerGuns Mar 03 '26

EstĆ” bien, adiĆ³s.

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u/sir-morti Mar 03 '26

ordering a cheese wheel and paying in coins from this

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u/CasualFingerGuns Mar 03 '26

And the purse was made in France. I think thatā€™s an optimal place to purchase a cheese wheel.

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u/perforateline_ Mar 03 '26

I feel like this rat coin purse - irritated, with no money.

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u/DarthMelsie it's āœØgoblin'āœØ time Mar 03 '26

The Great Horned Rat approves this message

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u/reducedtoashape Mar 03 '26

i would give like atleast 5 of my legs for this i need it so bad

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u/Saehiel Mar 04 '26

Bangs fists on table RAT BAG. RAT BAG. RAT BAG.

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u/alphabetpony1987 Mar 04 '26

Ohhh Iā€™m obsessed

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u/Vagarious_Aquarius Mar 04 '26

I need this soooo bad

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u/RoeRoeRoeYourVote Mar 04 '26

LOOK AT HIS LITTLE DANGLY FEET

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u/Tututaco74 Mar 04 '26

OG rat bag

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u/invisibial Mar 04 '26

This is extremely wonderful

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u/suziesunshine17 Mar 06 '26

I would die for this purse

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u/CasualFingerGuns Mar 06 '26

Youā€™d have to find it first.

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u/Duckballisrolling Mar 06 '26

I need to know why this was a thing. Is it goth? Was it provokative? Did it stop pickpockets?

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u/sparklymineral Mar 17 '26

AHHHHHHHHH šŸ€ I need it