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Amuletic brooch
- Made:
- 1848
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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
- type:
- brooch