- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Silver amulet in the form of a decorative hook. [FB 24/01/2012]
- Long description
- Silver amulet in the form of a decorative hook. The hook is oval in shape with full moon in the centre with face and floral and winged cherub design with shell finial. The back of the amulet is plain with metal loop for suspension. [FB 24/01/2012]
- Cultural groups
- Italian
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1880
- Date collected
- between 1880 - 1900
- Acquisition information
- Bequeathed: 05/07/2010
- Materials and processes
- Material Silver Metal, Process Incised, Process Moulded, Process Cast, Process Struck
- Dimensions
- Length x Width: max 65 x 37 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2010.46.54 Other numbers: 20a
- Research and responses
See 'Neapolitan Charms Against the Evil Eye' by Veronica Berry in Folklore, vo.79, No. 4 (Winter 1968), pp. 250 - 256 [FB 24/01/2012]
and 'The Evil Eye An Account of this Ancient and Widespread Superstition' by Fredrick Thomas Elworthy (1895). [FB 24/01/2012]
See Eustace Neville-Rolfe, Naples in 1888, Trübner, 1888. [FB 24/01/2012]
See Eustace Neville-Rolfe, Naples in the Nineties a sequel to Naples in 1888, Adam and Chas. Black, London, 1897. [FB 25/01/2012]
Eustace Neville-Rolfe lived in Naples between 1880 and 1900 and was an enthusiastic researcher and collector of amulets against the evil eye. He first loaned artefacts to PRM in 1892 (including a lemon stuck with nails which is now on display) and subsequently in 1893, 1903 and 1908. Rofle was consul in Naples, he was part of a network of amulet specialists including many whose collections are now at PRM (AE Gunther and Elworthy in particular as well as Balfour). [FB 24/01/2012]
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