Chain, Watch
- Object Name:
- Chain, Watch
- Object ID:
- 1995.612.10
- Date:
- circa 1860
- Description:
- Watch Chain. Hair, gold, and metal. Three woven, brown hair cord sections with gold-tone fittings on ends. Cord sections made up of small, woven hair tubes, 0.3 cm diameter. Open mesh style to each one. The three tubes combined in spiral. Brown, ovoid on either side of central cord section with open mesh brown hair captured inside four wire, gold tone apparatus. Closed oval loop at one end of watch core. Small loop at one end of watch cord opens up in small, knurled, round nut when loosened. Gold-tone fitting with elongated, slightly-open loop of gold-tone metal at other end. Small, engraved, fanciful floral decorations to metal fittings at each end of hair sections.
- Material:
- Metal
Gold
Tissue
Hair - Dimensions:
- H-1 W-1.4 L-41 cm Weight-10 gr
- Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
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