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ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE CLOAK PIN

Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage


About this object

Arts and crafts style cloak pin made of a long, horizontal pin made continuously of metal, clasping by fitting in a notch (like a safety pin with an end cover). The front of the clasp is decorated in the center with a large half sphere of green glass with a blue center backed with foil set in a shallow multi-toothed bezel. On either side are flowing, interlaced, triangle forms terminating in a splay. At the end of each splay is a smaller half sphere of green glass with a blue center backed with foil set in a shallow multi-toothed bezel. The front ornament is attached to the pin by a split hollow tube which each piece is soldered to and then attached to the pin with by crimping the tube onto the pin.

Object name:
ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE CLOAK PIN
Made from:
metal -- glass -- foil
Date made:
1900-1915
Size:
71/2” L x 1” H

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
2014.10.8
Signature marks:
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973