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Bar Pin

Date

1900-1940

GUSN

GUSN-23949

Description

This Nouveau-style bar pin is embellished with a guilloché and cloisonné enamel design of a central flower with scrolling foliage in blue, green and white on a machine-engraved ground. Closure is a hinged pin and clasp on back.

Details

Descriptive Terms

pins (fasteners)
pins (jewelry)
enameling
white metal
guilloche
scrolling foliage
Pin, Clothing
Pin, Bar
Brass
Enameled
Foliate
Flower
Pin, Bar

Associated Building

Original to Castle Tucker (Wiscasset, Me.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3 x 0.25 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Miss Jane S. Tucker

Accession Number

1998.4902

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