Model
1982 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Len Wilcox, the son of a diamond mounter, worked in London and Geneva, For many years he taught at the Sir John Cass School of Art and its successor institutions. He made the sequence shown here as a teaching aid. It shows the stages of manufacture by hand of a solitaire ring (Museum nos. M.235 to 250-2007). The first one shows the metal strip used to make the ring's collet that will hold the gemstone.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Nickel alloy |
| Brief description | Metal strip for collet of ring. Nickel alloy. 1st stage of fifteen showing the making of a finger ring. Made by Len Wilcox, England, 1982. |
| Physical description | Flat rectangular strip of metal. One of fifteen demonstration models mounted on blue perspex. |
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| Summary | Len Wilcox, the son of a diamond mounter, worked in London and Geneva, For many years he taught at the Sir John Cass School of Art and its successor institutions. He made the sequence shown here as a teaching aid. It shows the stages of manufacture by hand of a solitaire ring (Museum nos. M.235 to 250-2007). The first one shows the metal strip used to make the ring's collet that will hold the gemstone. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | M.235-2007 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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