TWO ENGINE-TURNED GOLD LOCKETS, ONE SIMON-ACHILLE LÉGER, PARIS, 1815/16-1826, THE OTHER UNMARKED, PROBABLY AMERICAN, DATED 1847
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July 14, 12:35 PM GMT
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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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TWO ENGINE-TURNED GOLD LOCKETS, ONE SIMON-ACHILLE LÉGER, PARIS, 1815/16-1826, THE OTHER UNMARKED, PROBABLY AMERICAN, DATED 1847
the first in the form of a slender book with engraved spine, the back and sliding front engine-turned within leaf borders, pendent ring and jump ring, the interior with a portrait miniature of Louis XVI painted on ivory, French School, unofficial 3e titre, 4.5cm., 1 ¾ in. high; the second circular with pendent ring, the hinged cover inscribed within an engraved rococo cartouche: ‘Winn. Jany. 29’’ 1847,’ the interior with an engraved inscription and set with a portrait miniature of a young man painted on ivory, presumably John Quarles Winn (1817-1893), American School, 5cm., 2in. diameter
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The inscription on the interior of the second reads: ‘Taken 1841 John Q. Winn born October 21 . 1817.’
John Quarles Winn, eldest of the 17 children of John Winn (1789-1844) and his wife, Lucy Barclay (née Wills, 1788-1850) was born at Fluvanna County, Virginia on 21 October 1817. He was married at Richmond, Virginia on 9 August 1847 to Mary Liscome Jarvis (1820-1899) by whom he had 11 children. During the American Civil War, Winn, an accountant, was employed as a clerk and bookkeeper for the Confederate Treasury. He died on 21 July 1893 and was buried at the Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri. For further details, see the Rev. David Watson Winn and Elizabeth Jarvis Winn, editors, Ancestors and Descendants of John Quarles Winn and His Wife Mary Liscome Jarvis, privately printed, Baltimore, 1932.