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- Date
- 1750 – 1850
- Material
- shell, tortoise; paper; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1051 a-c
- Description
- Small round glasses with tortoise shell frame in one piece. The arms are hinged at the sides and have curved ear arms. Each arm ends with a circle cut out.
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- Title
- Eyeglasses
- Date
- 1750 – 1850
- Material
- shell, tortoise; paper; metal
- Description
- Small round glasses with tortoise shell frame in one piece. The arms are hinged at the sides and have curved ear arms. Each arm ends with a circle cut out.
- Subject
- Mary Schaffer
- Serena M. Potts
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.1051 a-c
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Stitched Picture
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- Date
- prior to 1865
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1004 a,b
- Description
- Framed, embroidered picture with border of taupe, green and burgundy stylized flowers ca 3.5 wide. Background colour is burgundy, centre is a stylized "Egyptian" head and shoulders framed in a circular cream background with a narrow khaki green border. Around this is a symmetrical design of four…
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- Title
- Stitched Picture
- Date
- prior to 1865
- Material
- hair, sheep; fibre; wood
- Dimensions
- 44.5 x 44.0 cm
- Description
- Framed, embroidered picture with border of taupe, green and burgundy stylized flowers ca 3.5 wide. Background colour is burgundy, centre is a stylized "Egyptian" head and shoulders framed in a circular cream background with a narrow khaki green border. Around this is a symmetrical design of four groupings of stylized flowers at sides top and bottom on beige background surrounded by a narrow khaki border. Between each of these designs are four groupings of three flowers in same style embroidered directly on burgundy background.
- Credit
- Gift of Charles C. Reid, Banff, Alberta, 1986
- Catalogue Number
- 107.02.1004 a,b
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