- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Circular brooch, enameled and decorated with silver bosses and coral, with pendant. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 20/6/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector Lionel Boulton Campbell Lockhart Muirhead
- Field collector James Patrick Muirhead
- PRM source Charis Elizabeth Fosca Thomas
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1940
- Date collected
- By 1925
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1940
- Materials and processes
- Material Silver Metal, Material Coral, Process Enamelled
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 94 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1940.12.169
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