- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Valve of pearl shell.
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1922
- Date collected
- By 1922
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1922
- Materials and processes
- Material Pearl Shell
- Dimensions
- Length: max 215 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1922.43.18.1
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