Oval black glass cameo mounted on the head of a metal scarf pin. The scarf pin has a partly twisted stem, while the cameo has a setting in the form of a twisted rope border. The cameo is decorated with a profile portrait depicting Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), executed in white vitreous paste. It is inscribed on the termination of the right arm with the words 'Tassie F 1805'.