The wallet has changed and evolved over many centuries, but it is still one of the most widely used items the world over with many iterations. The oldest wallet was found on Otzi the Iceman who lived in BC; this leather wallet contained flints a tool and some tinder, but no money!
Source: Jennyschwarz. Wallets were viewed with distaste in Ancient Greece as they were seen as a way for the poor to carry their provisions around with them; it was an impoverished look. Source: Wikipedia. In the 10th century Anglo Saxons began to carry wallets which contained currency as well as other regular, day to day items.
Wallet does not need and introduction- it is that small leather case you carry in your pocket to carry cash, cards and documents. From being the carrier of your vitals to being a fashion statement, a Wallet shoulders a heavy weight of your expectations.
But like all important devices a wallet too has a long evolutionary time line which renders this sophisticated little device of vital importance, into our lap. It would not be too far from the truth to expostulate that wallets are as old as man-kind. Closer still would be to assume that wallets came into existence once the mankind started to feel the need to carry things around.
Not all through the human history has the wallet been used to carry currency notes, a wallet has been around way longer than the paper currency has, only not in the same shape or referred to by the same name. The early wallet is known perhaps to be shaped like a small pouch or knapsack made from lamb skin or such durable fabric, tied around the neck with something like draw strings. Worn by Ancient Greeks near the belt, these wallets were used to carry around the essential items like food and provisions.
It is also interesting to understand how the wallet got its name. Kibisis has been conventionally been translated as the Wallet. While the modern usage of the word wallet for the flat purses that we use today came as late as primarily used by Americans, among other names.
The classicist A. From the beginning of time, people have needed a way to carry around their small, day-to-day stuff. For centuries, coin purses met this need for most folks. And sadly no, this is not a post about the history of the fanny pack. Then, paper money entered the scene.
Paper currency was invented in Massachusetts in ; here, the coin purse took a sharp turn away from the fanny pack road thank goodness , and the wallet was born.
The first wallets were made of cow or horse leather and included a small pouch for ID cards. Regardless, the popularity and use of wallets continued to rise through the s, mostly by men. In the roaring s, Hermes at the time, a bridle and harness maker whose clients had primarily been horses seized the opportunity to create fashionable leather goods for everyday life.
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