Two plastic disks for pearl making
Maker
Denis George
(Australian, 1917 - 2001)
Date1957-1977
Object number00042867
NamePlastic disks
MediumPlastic
DimensionsOverall: 3 x 16 x 16 mm, 0.51 g
ClassificationsTools and equipment
Credit LineANMM Collection Gift from the George Family and Adrian Jackson
HistoryA plush lined display case containing assorted nuclei, half pearls, including 9 cruciform blisters, and assorted implements used for seeding and measuring pearls - no. 3 may be a William Saville-Kent wire. The tools have not been used, need to be bent up to shape - one blister has a nut and bolt - similar to S-K technique of attaching nucleus - some sphericals gone wrong, some good samples, a box of delaminated ones - No. 12 is possibly unique, P. penguin. Information given by Nick George.
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