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Charm bracelet with various silver and enamel charms including a squirrel, lady bug, Viking ship, shamrock, polar bear, Norwegian flag, 1935 Soviet coin, and a rising sun.
charm bracelets
bracelets (jewelry)
charms
silver (metal)
Jewelry
Bracelet
Bracelet, Charm
Bracelet, Charm
By the early twentieth century tourists could display an entire trip on their wrists. Vipont de Riviere Doane Merwin documented her journeys through the United Kingdom and Scandinavia in the 1930s with this pair of bracelets.
Most charms are stamped "925 S" (Hallmark)
Original to Merwin House (Stockbridge, Mass.),
988
Unknown
Bequest of Vipont de R.D. Merwin
1966.2323
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