OCT 2018 JEWELLERY, ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 9 October 2018 - 10:00 AM start
Four old Solomon Islands currency shell bangles
Realised: $250 plus premium
Lot Details
circular form, of polished clam shell. Approx. Dia.100mm. Note: These shell items were used as a medium of currency exchange/money. Provenance: Collected by Jessie Grant c.1950s when she was stationed in the Solomon Islands as a nurse. Two reprint photos from photographic slides show Grant with four local hospital staff 'Sasamuqa' and 'Our new house Sasamuqa. Japs machine gunned and stripped the old one...'. Dated 1952 to 1956.
