Amuletic brooch

Made:
1848
Amuletic brooch

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Amuletic brooch
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Amuletic brooch, small oval piece of fossil coral polished and set into brooch, mount, decorated with velvet and braid, protects against small pox, Lovett collection, from South London, 1848

Details

Category:
Ethnography and Folk Medicine
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A665889
Materials:
stone, velvet and braid
type:
brooch