Shell brooch, pearl snail 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 polished, pointed pearl snail shells (gibbula albidum gmelim) from the Mediterranean that are cemented to a strip of carboard that is attached to a metal bar pin. 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 pearl snail shells
content: Mediterranean Sea
setName: label: See more items in
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.6545
label: accession number
content: 156790
label: catalog number
content: A.6545
label: collector/donor number
content: 28
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Shell Brooch
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7/8 in x 11/16 in x 2 5/16 in; 2.2225 cm x 1.74625 cm x 5.87375 cm