Historic New England

Pair of Bar Brooches

Pair of 14 karat gold bar pins with a woman with flowing hair in relief, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1900-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: fourteen-carat gold

GUSN: 102107

Accession Number: 1993.881.1-2

Diaper Pin

Metal bar pin marked "WOODWARD'S / PATENT"

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102108

Accession Number: 1935.1451

Bar Brooch

Gold bar pin with blue enamel ground and engraved gold leaves, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102109

Accession Number: 1974.202

Bar Brooch

Gold bar pin with engraved wave design, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102110

Accession Number: 1974.201

Bar Brooch

Gilt metal bar pin in a twist form and abstract engraving on front, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102111

Accession Number: 1981.33

Brooch

Gold endless knot brooch with two grape leaves with scroll engraving, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: gold (metal)

GUSN: 102112

Accession Number: 1937.633

Pair of Bar Brooches

Pair of gold bar pins with black enamel foliate decoration, hinged pin and hooks on reverse.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102113

Accession Number: 1974.200ab

Pair of Bar Brooches

Pair of gold bar pins, one is slightly larger, with engraved scroll decoration and wave border, hinged pin and hooks on reverse.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102114

Accession Number: 1922.536ab

Set of Bar Pins

Three lozenge shaped gold bar pins attached together by chains, each feature a flower on a white enamel ground and surrounded by raised scrollwork, hinged pin and hook on the reverse of each.

Date: ca. 1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102115

Accession Number: 1974.416

Dress Clip

Brass dress clip with three stylized leaves.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 102116

Accession Number: 1947.205

Brooch

Girandole style gilt metal brooch with diamond shaped pierced scrollwork surmount supporting three pierced scrollwork pendants, hinged pin and safety clasp on reverse.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102117

Accession Number: 1947.221

Hatpin

Brass triangular shaped hat pin with molded basket weave design.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 102118

Accession Number: 1947.208

Brooch

Gilt metal brooch consisting of three bars, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102119

Accession Number: 1947.218

Brooch

Gilded wood brooch in the form of a wreath of grapes and grape leaves, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material), gilding

GUSN: 102120

Accession Number: 1947.206

Brooch

Gilt metal brooch in the form of a bird wing, hinged pin and safety hook on reverse.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102121

Accession Number: 1947.215

Set of Clips and Brooch

Set of three gilt metal triangular clips consisting of overlapping veined leaves and a matching circle brooch of leaves.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102122

Accession Number: 1947.204a-d

Dress Clip

Triangular metal dress clip with three stylized metal flowers.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102123

Accession Number: 1947.207

Pendant

Gilt metal pedant consisting of five pierced medallions linked together in a V shape, each set with a cabochon cut amber glass stone.

Date: 1930-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 102124

Accession Number: 1947.202

This silver brooch in the form of a butterfly is embellished with blue and green guilloche enamel decoration. It fastens with a gold hinged pin and hook on the reverse. The brooch is set in a fitted green leather heart-shaped case with an embossed gold border on the inside edge and a white satin lid...

Date: ca. 1897

Maker: Child & Child (Jeweler)

Material: silver (metal), enamel (fused coating), gold (metal)

GUSN: 102125

Accession Number: 1990.1383AB

Brooch

Blue enamel over brass brooch in the form of a dove, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 102126

Accession Number: 1947.224

Brooch

Rectangular open brass brooch with an enameled white flower and leaf cluster on each side over a turquoise guilloche enamel ground with a repeating abstract shell pattern, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1920-1940

Maker: unknown

Material: brass (alloy)

GUSN: 102127

Accession Number: 1947.220

Brooch

Orange painted ceramic brooch in the form of a calendula, hinged metal pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1940-1945

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102128

Accession Number: 1947.203

Butternut Pin

Carved butternut brooch with metal pin and hook on reverse. Tag reads (erroneously) that the brooch was carved from a peach stone.

Date: 1861-1862

Maker: Brown, Morton Winthrop (Maker)

GUSN: 102129

Accession Number: 1941.146

Butternut Pin

Carved cross-section of a butternut, with hook on reverse (missing pin).

Date: 1861-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102130

Accession Number: 1917.940

Brooch

Small oval brooch set with a piece of wood from the "Charter Oak" in a twisted metal frame, hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: ca. 1856

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102131

Accession Number: 1938.1093

Butternut Pin

Carved cross-section of a butternut.

Date: 1861-1865

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102132

Accession Number: 1917.939

Butternut Pin

Carved cross-section of a butternut, with metal pin and hook on reverse.

Date: 1861-1865

Maker: unknown

Material: nut (plant material)

GUSN: 102133

Accession Number: 1924.775

Brooch in Original Case

Gold brooch of a naturalistic flower with two leaves on either side, hinged pin and hook on reverse. Velvet lidded case with blue silk lining.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 102134

Accession Number: 1947.178ab

Hair Brooch

Gold oval brooch set with locks of blonde and brown hair under glass.

Date: 1820-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 102136

Accession Number: 2007.15.38

Brooch

Crescent paste brooch set in silver, with hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: c. 1790

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 101585

Accession Number: 1941.1433

Pop bead necklace

This necklace is composed of cylindrical faceted pink plastic Pop beads, also called "Pop-it" beads, that connect by fitting a molded ball on one bead into a matching socket on the next bead in the sequence.

Date: ca. 1960

Maker: unknown

Material: plastic by property: thermoplastic or thermoset

GUSN: 101586

Accession Number: 1993.62

Pop bead necklace

This necklace is composed of cylindrical faceted clear blue plastic Pop beads, also called "Pop-it" beads, that connect by fitting a molded ball on one bead into a matching socket on the next bead in the sequence.

Date: ca. 1960

Maker: unknown

Material: plastic by property: thermoplastic or thermoset

GUSN: 101587

Accession Number: 1993.63

Pop bead necklace

This necklace is composed of cylindrical faceted clear plastic Pop beads, also called "Pop-it" beads, that connect by fitting a molded ball on one bead into a matching socket on the next bead in the sequence.

Date: ca. 1960

Maker: unknown

Material: plastic by property: thermoplastic or thermoset

GUSN: 101588

Accession Number: 1993.64

Brooch

Seed pearl brooch in the form of two circles all set on a mother of pearl template, gold hinged pin and hook on reverse.

Date: ca. 1823

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101589

Accession Number: 1930.1655

Mechanical Pencil

Gilt metal mechanical pencil with cross hatch and cast floral decoration, set at end with round colorless glass stone.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 101590

Accession Number: 1973.457

Perfume Bottle

Small blue glass perfume bottle with gold and dark blue swirl design, metal chain with cork attached to neck.

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 101591

Accession Number: 1973.455

Pair of Bracelets

Pair of gold hinged bracelets with black enamel and a row of applied faceted jet squares.

Date: 1850-1870

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101592

Accession Number: 1973.461.1-.2

Sautoir

Metal flexible chain sautoir with cast tassel terminal.

Date: 1850-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 101593

Accession Number: 1973.458

Necklace

Faceted black glass bead necklace.

Date: 1870-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: jet (coal)

GUSN: 101594

Accession Number: 1973.464

Sautoir

Shell and glass bead sautoir.

Date: 1880-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: glass (material)

GUSN: 101595

Accession Number: 1973.460

Necklace

Silver necklace with festoons of bows and leaves set with marcasite beads and round and oval cut amethysts.

Date: 1890-1910

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 101596

Accession Number: 1973.459

Pair of Earrings

Each earring in this pair is composed of tableworked brunette human hair. Each tube of worked hair forms a large loop set at each end in gold mounts. A thin gold bar is suspended between the two gold mounts at the top of each loop. At the center of the bar is a small ring for a pendant, now missing....

Date: 1850-1880

Maker: unknown

Material: gold (metal), human hair

GUSN: 101597

Accession Number: 1929.1066AB

Bracelet

This large hinged gold bangle-style bracelet is decorated on the exterior with granulation and gold wire in an Etruscan Revival style. It closes with a concealed tongue and groove clasp. The interior is marked with the patent date and number for the clasp mechanism.

Date: ca. 1880

Maker: Hein, Charles (Patent holder) Possibly Hale & Mulford (Manufacturer)

Material: granulation, gold (metal)

GUSN: 101598

Accession Number: 2006.44.16