Collection Highlights
Fraktur: Birth and Baptism certificate of Joseph Flor
Date:
1811
Object Number:
PR.022.13
Medium:
Hand-colored print
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Needle case
Object Number:
INV.9773ab
Date:
1790-1840
Medium:
Ivory, paint
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 7/8 x 1/2 in. ( 9.8 x 1.3 cm )
Marks:
painted: around case, in floral row of design: "(illeg. foreign inscription)"
Description:
Cylindrical Ivory case in two threaded parts. Two ribbons of decoration decend in a spiral from the top, one band is decorative carved open work the other painted and edged with metalic gold paint. On the top the painted band is a floral decoration, below on the base it has been perseronalised with a hand writen inscription.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
