Stick pin
Category
Jewellery
Date
1825 (circa)
Materials
Gold, garnet.
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Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 288867
Summary
A gold stick pin, dating from around 1825, and designed as an outstretched hand holding a drop-shaped garnet and gold collet.
Full description
This stick pin was recorded in the 1886 inventory of the family jewel case within an ‘old silver apple scoop case containing pins… 1 gold hand’ (Derbyshire Record Office, D2375/H/F/2/27).
Provenance
Stick pin, c. 1825. Recorded in the 1886 inventory of the family jewel case within an ‘old silver apple scoop case containing pins… 1 gold hand’. Thence by descent to Henry Harpur-Crewe (1921-91) and transferred with Calke Abbey and its contents to the National Trust by the Treasury in lieu of Capital Transfer Tax in 1985 with an endowment provided by the National Heritage Memorial Fund.