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1. Basket with flowers shell pin, c. 1942-1945. - Brooch

   Basket with flowers shell pin, c. 1942-1945. This pin made of tiny white shells that are shaped like flowers in a variety of colors (white, pink, purple). The tiny white shells are spread out next to green fabric shaped like leaves in a brown painted string basket that is shaped like a shell. On top of the brown painted string basket, is a brown painted string loop that goes from the back of the shell shaped basket to the front. Mounted on the ba...

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2. Bouquet of Flowers Shell Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

   Bouquet of Flowers Shell Pin, c. 1942-1945. This pin is round in shape and is made of shells in a variety of sizes (tiny, small, and large), and painted in white, and pink flowers. The pin is surrounded in white shells with pink tiny shells in the middle of the white shells, green painted shells that look like leaves surrounding the white big shells painted in pink, white big shells painted in pink that look like three flowers which are surrounde...

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3. Flowers in a blue basket shell pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

   Flowers in a blue basket shell pin, c. 1942-1945. This pin is made of tiny white shells shaped like small flowers with a variety of colors (white, yellow and purple). The tiny white shells are glued to some wood that is round in shape, and painted in blue throughout with columns of white lines underneath the tiny white shells. At the top of the blue painted round wooden pin, there is some string painted in blue and that is looped around the left ...

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4. Green fish pin (brooch), c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

   Green fish pin (brooch), c. 1942-1945. This pin is in green, and made of plastic. It is shaped like a fish with two white small eyes painted around the plastic border of the circles on the pin, a small opening that appears to be his mouth, a small fin with lines indented and stretched across it diagonally, and a small tail with indented lines that is shaped like part of triangle. At the bottom, part of the pin has a square like hole, which is abo...

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5. Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945 - Brooch

   Black Japanese Fish Pin, c. 1942-1945. Carved and painted wood pin made in the Topaz Utah Internment Center. Fish has detailed carvings of fins, eyes, and mouth, as well as detailed scales painted on. Fish is a long, narrow type with a long dorsal fin and a slightly open mouth. Pin only displays fish in profile. Base color is dark yellow, with details in black, white, and orange. Reverse is partially painted in the base color, with a large sectio...

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6. Landscape Relief Oval Brooch - Brooch

   Landscape Relief Oval Brooch. Oval shaped brooch made out of a pink and white material (a type of stone?) that is carved to depict a still life. In the carving a person is sitting on a large rock fishing, next to them is a tree, behind them on the proper right is a house or barn or shed, with another house depicted to be further back on the proper left side, with more trees in the background. The stone is set into a gold-colored oval made of sphe...

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7. WWII Blue Star Mother's Pin, c. 1939-1944 - Pin, Membership

   WWII Blue Star Mother's Pin, c. 1939-1944. Purchased by a woman who has a child or husband serving on active duty. Brass colored metal pin with painted front of a white rectangle with a red border and a blue star in the center.

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8. WWII Gold Star Mother's Pin, 1947 - Pin, Award

   WWII Gold Star Mother's Pin. August 1, 1947. Issued by the U.S. Government to mother of a solder lost in battle. Brass colored metal pin. Brass star on purple circle surrounded by brass wreath. Back says, "ACT OF CONGRESS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / 1 AUGUST 1947." Still housed in original yellow box but box lid is missing.

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