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Set of tortoiseshell (?) jewelry of a brooch and pair of earrings: brooch consists of three balls in a row, hinged pin and hook on reverse; earrings are single balls mounted on ear wire fasteners. All stored in yellow cardboard jewelry box.
pins (jewelry)
SET, JEWELRY
"REPAIRING DEPARTMENT / BIGELOW, KENNARD & CO. INC. / 511 WASHINGTON STREET. / BOSTON." (Printed)
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
414
Unknown
3/4 in (1) x 1 7/8 in (1); 9/16 in (2); 9/16 in (3) x 7/8 in (1) (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.3021.1-3
For more information on tortoiseshell jewelry see Bury, Shirley, "Jewellery, 1789-1910," v. 1 (1991): 259-263; Dawes, Ginny Reddington & Corinne Davidov, "Victorian Jewelry: Unexplored Treasures," (1991): 132-138; Fales, Martha Gandy, "Jewelry in America, 1600-1900," (1995): 223-227; Gere, Charlotte, "American & European Jewelry, 1830-1914," (1975): 114-115. For more information on the Codman estate see the entire issue of "Old Time New England" 71, no. 258 (1981).
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