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Framed lock of hair
Glazed rectangular pendant with a lock of hair tied with black cotton against a cream damask material. It has a silver frame mounted with pink stones, set in openwork flower designs and with a swiveling bow above in the same material, a pendant pink stone below. The hair reputedly belonged to Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805).
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Object Details
| ID: | REL0153 |
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| Collection: | Relics |
| Type: | Pendant |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| People: | Nelson, Horatio |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Nelson-Ward Collection |
| Measurements: | Overall: 7 mm x 70 mm x 125 mm |
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