PIN, LAPEL
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- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- BRASS
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041633
- Material Type
- Artifact
- Date Range From
- 1960
- Date Range To
- 1970
- Materials
- BRASS
- No. Pieces
- 1
- Height
- 0.4
- Length
- 2.9
- Width
- 1.2
- Description
- SMALL BRASS PIN IS MOLDED QUILL PEN WITH TWO JAPANESE CHARACTERS RAISED TO EITHER SIDE OF QUILL SHAFT.
- Subjects
- ADORNMENT
- Historical Association
- PERSONAL CARE
- History
- LAPEL PIN WAS FOUND AMONG THE BELONGINGS OF DONOR'S MOTHER, LOIS NAKAYAMA. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.
- Catalogue Number
- P19970041633
- Acquisition Date
- 1997-01
- Collection
- Museum
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