| Category: |
Objects -> Armament & Military: Objects
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| Donor: |
E. Tobey |
| Location: |
Historic White Pine Village -> Rose Hawley Museum -> Room D
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| Accession Number: |
1958.1.3
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| Name of Object: |
sweetheart ring
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| Description: |
bronze colored wood ring w/ pink mollusk shell heart in center; note attached reads: Pa sent this ring to Ma, while in the Civil War - got the wood off the Lookout Mountain (sweet briar) - the shell came out of the Tennessee River. Handmade
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| History: |
early trench art, handmade; Civil War, soldier sent home ring
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| Condition: |
Good
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| Year Manufactured: |
0000
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