- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, white metal finger rings, with a green dot painted at the top of the ring in imitation of a stone or gem with two circles either side, for children. [BS [OPS move] 18/1/2017]
- Long description
- Amulet, white metal finger rings, with a green dot painted at the top of the ring in imitation of a stone or gem with two circles either side, for children. Bunched together with [.1-.14] on a red string, [.15-.17] are loose. [BS [OPS move] 18/1/2017]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1892
- Date collected
- 1892
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material Pigment, Material Lead Metal, Material Aluminium Metal, Process Cast, Process Painted
- Dimensions
- Width: max 11 mm, Length: max 16 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.881.12 Other numbers: 1714
Search terms: Religion, Ornament, Children and Childcare, Amulet, Finger Ring
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