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Necklace belonging to Lady Amelia Offley Bernard
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[ This description is from the project: Fashioning the New England Family ]
Necklace of oval nacre medallions or bosses (10 single and two double) set in silver with paste brilliants (15 around each single, 24 around one double and 26 around the other double medallion). Medallions/bosses joined by double links of hand-made silver chain. Clasp is tongue style which fits into lock topped by an eleventh single nacre medallion, surrounded by 15 paste brilliants.
Amelia Offley Bernard (1717-1778) was the wife of Sir Francis Bernard (1712-1779), last governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1760. When her husband was recalled and they left the colony in 1768, Lady Bernard gave this necklace to her friend, Mrs. M. Nichols, who later gave it to Rosanna Duncan Lamb (Mrs. Thomas Lamb), great-grandmother of the donors.