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Lot 102
Sale 5248 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Nov 15, 2017
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,500 -
2,500
Price Realized
$2,100
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Two gold and ivory mourning pins/pendants England or America, dated 1795 and 1855
The first, of oval form, painted with woman praying beside covered urn on plinth inscribed, "Departed/ In...," a second plinth inscribed, "W. A. M./ Ob June/ 1795/ AE 2 Mo," the reverse set with hair, once fitted as a pin, now with loop attachment; the second, an oval gold, ivory and hairwork mourning pin depicting swagged obelisk dated, "1855," the below plinth inscribed, "my/ Mother," the reverse fitted with horizontal pin; both seemingly unmarked.
W: 2 in. (overall, largest)