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Brooch, given by Mary Todd Lincoln to her niece
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Round, flat-top, plain onyx brooch with gold clasp. Button-style, highly polished surface. Gold ring attached to back, not visible from top. Clasp & pin attached to ring, simple spiral clasp, pin soldered to opposite side of ring. Diam 3/4" x W 1/4".
Fob, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)carved in shape of a long hoof. Bottom of gold with initials "GFHL" in circle, attatched to small braided hair loop. L 1 3/8".
Native American Spider Gorget
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Round marine shells with spider designs carved onto them. The shells are about 3" in diameter.
Bracelet, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)and engraved brass catches on either side of stone. Crocheted band has two open bands with double crocheted band in the middle. L 6 3/4" x W 3/4".
Stickpin, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)setting has four molded roses and thistles on outer edge, rope around stone is braid of human hair, set under glass. Long sticker/ pin is twisted in middle. L 3" x W 5/8".
Watch Chain from Early/Mid-Victorian Springfield, IL
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Choker-type chain made out of brown braided hair. Has brass hook and clasp at ends, and a mother-of-pear and brass piece in the middle. Brass pieces are heavily decorated. L 14 1/2".
Native American Spider Gorget
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Round marine shells with spider designs carved onto them. The shells are about 3" in diameter.
Earrings, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)circle of metal at top, one part of which goes through the ear. L 1 3/8" x W 1 1/8".
Political medallions, depicting ferrotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Hollow metal ring around ferrotype images of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Ring embossed with vine design, hole for hanging at top. Black and white ferrotypes, beardless Lincoln, both in dark suits, white shirts. Obverse: "Abraham Lincoln". Reverse: "Hannibal Hamlin". Diam 1 1/8" x H 1/8".
Necklace, Antebellum jewelry
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)back side contains three plumes, all under glass. Broken-braided human hair chain with clasp on top. L 1 5/8" x W 1 3/8".
Della fabbricazione e commercio della oreficeria in Italia : e delle leggi che la riguardano
Multi-Page Item | 46 pages | 1871 | Digital Rare Book Collection Boselli, Enrico

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Brooch, given by Mary Todd Lincoln to her niece

Fob, Antebellum jewelry

Native American Spider Gorget

Bracelet, Antebellum jewelry

Stickpin, Antebellum jewelry

Watch Chain from Early/Mid-Victorian Springfield, IL

Native American Spider Gorget

Earrings, Antebellum jewelry

Political medallions, depicting ferrotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

Necklace, Antebellum jewelry

Della fabbricazione e commercio della oreficeria in Italia : e delle leggi che la riguardano

Brooch, given by Mary Todd Lincoln to her niece

Fob, Antebellum jewelry

Native American Spider Gorget

Bracelet, Antebellum jewelry

Stickpin, Antebellum jewelry

Watch Chain from Early/Mid-Victorian Springfield, IL

Native American Spider Gorget

Earrings, Antebellum jewelry

Political medallions, depicting ferrotypes of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin

Necklace, Antebellum jewelry

Della fabbricazione e commercio della oreficeria in Italia : e delle leggi che la riguardano