- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Enamelled icon pendant worn by Russian soldiers during World War 1. [SM 09/06/2011]
- Long description
- Enamelled icon pendant worn by Russian soldiers during World War 1. Pendant in a copper alloy mount with a suspension loop, painted image of several figures, possibly ?saints on one surface and painted cross on the back. [SM 23/02/2011]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- European Russian
- Person
- Field collector Edward Lovett
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1918
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Glass, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Pigment, Process Enamelled, Process Bent, Process Painted, Process Soldered
- Dimensions
- Width: max 14 mm, Length: max 21 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.440 Other numbers: SS A 180862 AM C lot 175
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