Pin
- Object Name:
- Pin
- Object ID:
- 1951.017.22
- Date:
- circa 1849
- Description:
- Pin, crescent shape, of California gold. Rough-textured gold surface to outer portion. Loose, flat surface crescent inside crescent that hangs free. Mechanism for eat at top ends of crescent that was soldered closed. Pivot between two small tabs of gold at one end for earring wire. Other end pointed and bent to fit into end of crescent. Pivoted wire with mount on one side of crescent and small catch loop on other end of crescent. These fittings appear to be different alloy and too large for earring.
- Material:
- Metal
Gold - Dimensions:
- H-2.4 W-2.75 D-0.5 cm Weight-3 gr
- Provenance:
- From accession sheet: "crescent pin of gold mined in Calif. by Leonard Thayer".
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Effie F. C. Milligan and Randolph H. Milligan
- People:
- Thayer, Norah (1821-1883), Thayer, Leonard (1819-1895), Milligan, Effie F. C. (1864-1953), Milligan, Randolph H. (1897-1973)
- Subjects:
- Gold rushes, Gold miners
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