IDENTIFIERS
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id:	28457
accession number:	M.17 & A-2000

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Gold, hair, seed pearls and glass. Octagonal gold frame containing on one side a curl of pale greyish-brown hair with near its narrow end, a trefoil of gold wire, and a long curved wavy, two strand twisted wire, over a white ridged background. On the other side there is light brown hair arranged in four different directions, with over it in the centre the initials, AA, in seed pearls. At the top on an angle there is loop and a facetted ring for suspension. The circular box (A) covered in dark blue leather, lined with purple velvet and white silk, was not made for the pendant.
title:	pendant

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Anne Armstrong (1830-?1910), unmarried sister of Matilda Barnes, the donor's husband's grandmother


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Mrs Stella Barnes

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/28457





CATEGORIES
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category: jewellery

DATING
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creation date:	1840 - 1860
creation date earliest:	1840
creation date latest:	1860
culture:	19th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 3.2



CITATIONS
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The Jewellers' Book of Patterns in Hair Work
The Lock of Hair
Gedenke Mein, Freundschafs - und Memorialschmuck 1770-1870
The Art of the Jeweller, A Catalogue of the Hull Grundy Gift to the British Museum: Jewellery, Engraved Gems and Goldsmiths' Work, I
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