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Pair of black glass earrings, three graduated black glass balls with applied glass spikes, metal ear wire fasteners.
earrings (jewelry)
glass (material)
EARRING
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
478
Unknown
11/16 (W) (inches)
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.3058.1-.2
For more information on jet jewelry and imitations see Bury, Shirley, "Jewellery, 1789-1910" v. 2 (1991): 657-709; Cooper, Diana and Norman Battershill, "Victorian Sentimental Jewellery," (1972): 19-30; Dawes, Ginny Reddington and Corinne Davidov, "Victorian Jewelry: Unexplored Treasures," (1991): 125-130; Fales, Martha Gandy, "Jewelry in America, 1600-1900," (1995): 125-126, 254-256; Phillips, Clare, "Jewels and Jewelry," (2000): 94-95. For more information on the Codman estate see the entire issue of "Old Time New England" 71, no. 258 (1981).
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