Pin
- Object Name:
- Pin
- Object ID:
- 1958.082.59
- Date:
- 1865-1870
- Description:
- Pin and chain for shawl. Gold. Engraved gold ball with large, symmetrical, four-petal blossom on its end with number of small, fanciful leaves, stamped around and near base, which is attached to pointed alloy shaft, 0.13 cm diameter. Four short seams on ball near shaft assembly attached. Chain of single oval loops connects pin to clasp body. Clasp body rectangular shape convex bar with fanciful symmetrical shapes and engravings. A single symmetrical pierced and shaped piece sits on top of a bar at its center. Polished concave groove for its back and hinged pin and clasp to bar. Chain attached with small loop to back of bar. Small, black, enamel, double Fleur-de-Lis at top center of whole bar.
- Material:
- Metal
Gold
Enamel - Dimensions:
- L-8.85 Dia-1.3 cm Weight-13 gr
- Provenance:
- Worn by Eunice Pierce Flagg, born 1843 in Worcester, MA. She moved to Rindge, NH, in 1857. She married her first husband, Dr. Andrew J. Flagg, and lived in Claremont, NH, from 1865 to 1870. She was the mother of Mrs. Gardner L. King (Constance Jennison King).
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gardner L. King
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