Key
- Object Name:
- Key
- Object ID:
- 2017.500.01
- Place of Origin:
- Rome, Italy
- Description:
- Key, bronze. Circular head (bow), tubular shank, and rectangular bit. Paper tag tied to key with thread; torn in four pieces; inscribed in ink, "Key from the ruins / of ansient [sic] Rome / By Mrs. Frances Hawley".
- Material:
- Metal
Bronze - Dimensions:
- W-1.1 L-3.15 D-0.3 inches
- Provenance:
- One of 20 objects in collection of relics found in first-floor classroom in New Hampshire Historical Society building at 6 Eagle Square (Hamel Center), Concord, in 2017. Acquired by NHHS education department c. 2010 from an unidentified New Hampshire school teacher who was visiting the museum with a class.
All of the inscriptions appear to date from the 1890s. Four of the objects were given to the collector by Mrs. Leroy S. Brown (Geneva May Philbrick Brown) (1855-1947) of Cambridge, MA; she lived in Cambridge from 1884 to 1906. - Credit Line:
- New Hampshire Historical Society Collection
- Subjects:
- Keys (Hardware), Souvenirs
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