The love affair started when Hendrikje Ivo found a handbag in an English antique shop. It was a work of art - tortoiseshell inlaid with mother-of-pearl, made by a German craftsman of the 1820s. Mrs Ivo was smitten. She bought it. She looked around for more.
By 1996 she had the world's largest collection of bags and purses, and it seemed a shame to keep them stuffed away in boxes. A passion ought to be shared. So her supportive and handy husband, Heinz, built a set of shelves and together they opened the Tassenmuseum (Handbag Museum) Hendrikje.
Over the next decade the collection continued to grow and her 4000 bags were moved to their present home in a superbly restored canal house on Amsterdam's stately Herengracht - The Gentlemen's Canal.
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