| Description |
Alan V. Weinberg comments: Original gold- trimmed glass locket enclosing this prooflike, uniface Baker 169 Jacob Perkins Newburyport Mass Geo Wash. Funeral shell. These shells were struck to be worn in ladies' lockets and brooches (like PCAC's pearl brooch) or inserted in small frames (like the US Sup Ct. Chief Justice John Marshall framed gem). A few were holed for suspension (Matthew Stickney specimen) and the vast majority of the 20 or so known pcs are "raw" - standing alone and quite fragile. |
