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Oval gilt metal locket set with a reverse painted glass featuring a standing woman holding a plaque inscribed "PEN / SEZ / A / MOI" on a pink ground, reverse is set with a photograph portrait of a woman.
pendants (jewelry)
glass (material)
albumen prints
enamel (fused coating)
Pendant
"PEN / SEZ / A / MOI" (translation "think of me")
1022
Unknown
1 3/4 in (W) (inches)
1966.25
For more information on mourning jewelry see Bury, Shirley, "Jewellery, 1789-1910," v. 2 (1991): 657-710; Deutsch, Davida Tenebaum, "Jewelry for mourning, love, and fancy, 1770-1830," "The Magazine Antiques" (April 1999): 566-575; Fales, Martha Gandy, "Jewelry in America, 1600-1900," (1995): 23-31.
1810-1830 (pendant is earlier than photograph, which dates to c. 1860)
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