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Description: | Copper alloy and ?Jet, paintedBracelet fragment. Cast curving openwork strip with twelve tiny facetted black beads of diameter 3.4mm remaining attached. The beads were mounted on tiny pointed drawn wire pins of length 2.5mm projecting from three rows of circular sockets. Traces of black paint survive on the reverse. The object does not show any sign of breakage and may have been attached to a cord or strap of another material (now lost). The fashion for jet jewellery for wear during a period of formal mourning was established by Queen Victoria after the death of her consort Prince Albert in 1861. Slightly curved Suggested date: Modern, 1861-1900.Length: 37.6mm, Width: 10.2mm, Thickness (strip, clear of pins and beads): 0.7mm, Weight: 2.30gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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