Watch chain with fob seals and lockets
England?
Watch chains often had attached to them useful and personal items, such as seals, for impressing ones monogram into the wax seal on an envelope. This watch chain belonged to Baron Ferdinand, the builder of Waddesdon, whose wife Evelina died in childbirth within a year of their marriage. Touchingly, Ferdinand's watch chain also includes her seal, and a portrait of her in a locket.
Earliest Rothschild collector: Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild; b.1839, d.1898
Credit: Gift of Dorothy de Rothschild, 1971
c 1860
Gold, with carnelian and bloodstone seals, and photographs under glass
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