Watch chain and stud
date: label: Date
content: mid-19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: (a) Man's watch chain; cylinders of strands of hair set in gold alternating with globes of hair within gold cages; ornaments in the form of one cross, three anchors, one heart shape and one shoe. (b) Stud of gold with snake in gold coiled around a half-ball of brown human hair.
place: label: made in
content: USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1928-5-44-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: jewelry
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Watch chain and stud
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Human hair, gold, wood, metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a: watch): 3.5 x 50.3 cm (1 3/8 x 19 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam. (b: stud): 1 x 1 cm (3/8 x 3/8 in.)