ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE CLOAK PIN
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Arts and crafts style cloak pin made of a long, horizontal pin made continuously of metal, clasping by fitting in a notch (like a safety pin with an end cover). The front of the clasp is decorated in the center with a large half sphere of green glass with a blue center backed with foil set in a shallow multi-toothed bezel. On either side are flowing, interlaced, triangle forms terminating in a splay. At the end of each splay is a smaller half sphere of green glass with a blue center backed with foil set in a shallow multi-toothed bezel. The front ornament is attached to the pin by a split hollow tube which each piece is soldered to and then attached to the pin with by crimping the tube onto the pin.
- Object name:
- ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE CLOAK PIN
- Made from:
- metal -- glass -- foil
- Date made:
- 1900-1915
- Size:
- 71/2” L x 1” H
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 2014.10.8
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973