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1924.18.4

Celluloid pendant, imitating cornelian

1924.18.4

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Collection type
Object
Description
Celluloid pendant, imitating cornelian
Cultural groups
European
Person
Field collector Unknown Collector
PRM source Alfred Walter Francis Fuller
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1920
Date collected
By 1920
Acquisition information
Donated: 1924
Materials and processes
Material Plastic Synthetic, Material Cellulose Nitrate
Object numbers
Accession number: 1924.18.4
Research and responses

This object has been examined and photographed by Margrit Reuss, research visitor, in 1996. [LMo 16/09/2011]

Associated publications
This may be the pendant illustrated by M. Reuss, 1997, Imitationen aus frühen Kunststoffen in völkerkundlichen Sammlungen (dissertation), cat. 22, the length of which is said to be around 50 mm, but for which she gives the incorrect accession number of 1905.18.4. There is a copy of this dissertation in the conservation lab [RTS 5/1/2004].

Search terms: Ornament, Bead, Figure, Trade, Reproduction, Pendant, Animal Figure

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