- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Curved flattened animal horn with an iron skeleton key tied to it with a piece of string. Used as a talisman for luck. [SM 20/05/2011]
- Geographical reference
- England North London
- Cultural groups
- English
- Person
- Field collector Edward Lovett
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1933
- Date collected
- By 1933
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Horn, Material Iron Metal, Material String, Process Perforated, Process Cast, Process Tied
- Dimensions
- Width: max 47 mm, Length: max 187 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.51.1042 Other numbers: R 11062/ 1936 R 9430 H AM C 1370
1985.51.1042
Curved flattened animal horn with an iron skeleton key tied to it with a piece of string. Used as a talisman for luck. [SM 20/05/2011]
1985.51.1042
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