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1890s
Length x width: 3 x 5.7 cm (1 3/16 x 2 1/4 in.)
Gold, garnet.
Classification: Jewelry / Adornment
Culture: Czech Republic
Accession number: 2012.202
Description: Pin in the form of a butterfly made up of bands of round garnets. Marks: "AVF" on reverse (Anna V. Fitzgerald, a relative of Honey Fritz)
Provenance/Ownership History: Anna Fitzgerald; by descent to Breshnaham; by descent to Jeffries; 2011, Robert Sprowl by inheritence from his mother Margo Jeffries Sprowl; 2012, gift of Sprowl to the MFA. (Accession date: March 28, 2012)
Gift of Robert Sprowl in memory of Margo Jeffries Sprowl