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Award of Merit Watch Key

Dateca. 1821

OriginAmerica or England

MediumGold and steel

DimensionsOL: 1 7/8" OW: 11/16"

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number2009-60

DescriptionGold award of merit watch key: Suspension loop with scrolled juncture to top of thin, rectangular watch key with short tubular winding tube attached via scrolled juncture
Label TextRobert Ruffin Collier (1804–1870) of Petersburg, Virginia, received this gold watch key as an award of merit while attending Ebenezer Academy.
InscribedEngraved "R.R. Collier. / Ebenezer Academy. July. 1821. / Petersburg. Va." on one side. On the other "Doctus Latinis Græcis que literis."