- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet of paper. Oval prints of Mary Magdalen and Francis of Sales bound under glass with strips of paper and copper wire. A piece of string at the top for suspension. [BA [OPS move] 25/9/2017]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Person
- Field collector Walter Leo Hildburgh
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1901
- Date collected
- circa 1901 - 1902
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Paper Plant, Material Glass, Material Metal Wire, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material String, Process Printed, Process Wound, Process Bound, Process Twisted
- Dimensions
- Length: max 64 mm, Width: max 42 mm, Depth: max 6 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.50.434
Search terms: Picture and Graphic Art, Ornament, Religion, Amulet, Religious Object, Pendant, Print
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