Shell brooch, conch shells
name: label: maker
content: Walworth, Ruth Lippincott
notes: label: Description
content: This shell brooch was made by Ruth Lippincott Walworth of Newton Centre, Massachusetts. It is made of conch shells (fasciolaria gigantea kiener) from Sanibel Island, Florida. One of the shells is attached by a screw eye and ring to the center of a bar pin, and the others are attached the same way to a short chain attached to the ends of the pin and hanging in a semicircle below it. This brooch is a part of a collection of 28 pieces of seashell jewelry made by Walworth and donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1940. This piece and entire collection illustrate modern shellcraft, or the making of decorative objects with seashells. Walworth was the author of <i>Shellcraft</i>, a 1938 publication about creating jewelry with shells.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Source of conch shells
content: United States: Florida, Sanibel Island
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content: Work and Industry: Agriculture
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ruth Lippincott Walworth
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.A.6539
label: accession number
content: 156790
label: catalog number
content: A.6539
label: collector/donor number
content: 21
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Brooch
label: Object Name
content: shell gadget
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 1 3/8 in x 2 3/8 in; 1.27 cm x 3.4925 cm x 6.0325 cm