- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Amulet, a white metal figure of St. Genevieve [.1], inside a rectangular steel box [.2] with a detachable lid [.3]. [RB 22/05/2012]
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Wellcome Institute
- PRM source Wellcome Historical Medical Museum
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1931
- Date collected
- By 1931
- Acquisition information
- Transferred: 1985
- Materials and processes
- Material White Metal, Material Steel Metal, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Height: max 16 mm, Width: max 18 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1985.52.1482.3 Other numbers: 3039
Search terms: Religion, Figure, Box, Amulet, Religious Object, Lid
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