Description
the oval glazed panel backed with blue silk and enclosing a coiled lock of hair, incised arched border, pierced and engraved integral suspension loop, the reverse engraved 'Lock of Prince Charles Edward Stuart's hair 1763', contained in a small red morocco leather initiation book, with inscribed note to inner cover 'Prince Charles Stuarts Hair 1745'
Dimensions
locket 32mm long, excluding loop
Footnote
Provenance:
Threipland family collection
By direct descent
Fingask Castle, 26th – 28th April 1993, Christies, Lot 950
Exhibition:
Royal House of Stuart, The New Gallery London 1889, No. 533
Museum of Science and Arts, Edinburgh 1892, No.118-5