Pin
- Object Name:
- Pin
- Object ID:
- 2002.023.07
- Date:
- circa 1825
- Description:
- Gold pin with woven hair decoration. Oval gold pin with twisted gold wire. Balls of brown hair around perimeter, and three hanging hair ornaments with gold tips. Engraved on reverse, "SFBM / to / LMP". Accompanied by note written by Frances Perry Dudley: "Pin made with hair of Mrs. Lucretia Walker Morse, given to her namesake, Lucretia Morse (Fisk) Perry, my mother, by Professor Samuel Finley Breeze Morse."
- Material:
- Metal
Gold
Hair - Dimensions:
- H-2 W-2.6 D-0.4 inches
- Provenance:
- Part of the Perry-Dudley Family Archive and Shepard Collection.
Made with hair of Lucretia Walker Morse (1799-1825), wife of Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872), who presented it to Lucretia Morse Fisk Perry (1826-1896). - Credit Line:
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Shepard, Jr., in memory of Mr. Shepard's mother and maternal grandmother
- People:
- Dudley, Frances P. (1861-1953), Fisk, Lucretia Morse (1826-1896), Morse, Samuel F. B. (1791-1872), Morse, Lucretia Walker (1799-1825)
- Subjects:
- Hair ornaments
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