Tintype Pendant, 1863
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The development of the tintype with its increased durability over daguerreotypes and ambrotypes lent itself to creating mementoes and keepsakes, housed in a variety of cases including jewelry. This particular pendant could be a piece of mourning jewelry or it could have been a keepsake given to a loved one by a soldier going off to war.
The development of the tintype with its increased durability over daguerreotypes and ambrotypes lent itself to creating mementoes and keepsakes, housed in a variety of cases including jewelry. This particular pendant could be a piece of mourning jewelry or it could have been a keepsake given to a loved one by a soldier going off to war.
Artifact
Pendant (Jewelry)
Date Made
1863
Keywords
Location
Not on exhibit to the public.
Object ID
00.3.14792
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Abalone shell
Metal
Glass (Material)
Technique
Tintype (Process)
Dimensions
Height: 1.75 in
Width: 1.5 in
Inscriptions
verso, frame: 1863 scratched on back of image almost illegibly: Charles Myin(?) 1863 Nashville Tenn.
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