Object Details
- Description
- A mechanical pencil in black enamel decorated at either end with a cap of rose-cut diamonds
- and a pearl, the center with rose-cut diamond-set band supporting a black silk
- tassel with enamel and diamond slide link, with a telescoping gold mechanical pencil
- that slides out from one end attached to the pearl and diamond cap
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Producer
- Cartier, French, founded 1847
- Date
- ca. 1929
- Credit Line
- Lent by Private Collection
- Medium
- Enamel, rose-cut and other diamonds, pearl, silk tassel, gold, platinum
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 5.6 × 1.4 × 1.4 cm (2 3/16 × 9/16 × 9/16 in.)
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Exhibitions
- Mechanical Pencil
