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Victorian Ilfracolmbe Pig Stanhope Pendant

Victorian Ilfracolmbe Pig Stanhope Pendant

$300.00

Description

DATE: Victorian, c.1900

A weird antique Stanhope charm/pendant fashioned as a stylised pig, carved out of a single piece of hardwood. Look through the little hole it its side, and you can see "A Memory of Ilfracolmbe" along with photographs of the main tourist attractions in and around the Devon town.

Stanhopes (aka Stanho-scopes) were invented by René Dagron in 1857 as a way of viewing microphotographs without the need of an expensive microscope. In 1862, Dagron displayed the devices at the Exhibition in London, where he got an "Honourable Mention" and presented them to Queen Victoria.

MEASUREMENTS 

2.2 x 1.6mm

WEIGHT 

1.2g

MARKS 

No marks present

CONDITION 

Okay, he's lost an eye, a back leg, and there's a split in the wood just above the eye hole

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