bracelet
- Museum number
- 2005,0602.1
- Description
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Gold bracelet, hollow hoop with three mice on the top, their tails wound round the hoop. Unmarked. Acquired in a contemporary red leather case with twin side-opening flaps, the silk lining replaced.
- Production date
- 1880 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 67 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For a contemporary advertisement for a set of mouse jewellery by Thornhill & Co, including an identical bracelet, see 'The Queen', 31 July 1880 (illustrated in C. Phillips, Jewels and Jewellery, London, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2000, p. 91).
See also C. Gere & J. Rudoe, 'Jewellery in the Age of Queen Victoria: A Mirror to the World', London, British Museum, 2010, fig. 180, p.223
- Location
- On display (G47/dc8)
- Acquisition date
- 2005
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased for the British Museum by R.C. Kwok.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2005,0602.1