IDENTIFIERS
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id:	30517
accession number:	M.9-1982

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 4 April 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Needlework tool or plectrum. Reconstituted natural material (tortoise shell?), moulded flat pear-shaped form. One side has a slightly curved surface with a channel running down the middle.
title:	plectrum

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Given to the Wellcome Institute by Miss V. Alford, 2 Henleaze Road, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. No Wellcome no.


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 the Trustees of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in accordance with the order of Mr Justice Foster of 21st March, 1977

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/30517





TECHNIQUES
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tortoise shell (?), moulded into a flat pear-shaped form
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: sculpture

DATING
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culture:	unknown

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 4.8

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 3.0