Crown tie tack worn by Reverend Ike
Object Details
- Manufactured by
- Unidentified
- Worn by
- Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, American, 1935 - 2009
- Description
- A jewel-encrusted crown-shaped tie tack worn by Reverend Ike. The gold tone tie tack features a crown shaped front face encrusted with white, red, green, and blue rhinestones The crown has three arches set with small, round, white rhinestone points, and a single green rhinestone point at the bottom of the center arch. The crown cap is represented by two marquise cut red rhinestones. At the bottom of the crown is a band of channel set blue rhinestone baguettes framed by two rows of gold beads. The crowns are capped with a square cut, green rhinestone topped by an empty setting for a missing round-shaped rhinestone. The tie tack has a single, gold tone, base metal post and a locking pin clutch with a ball top.
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eula M. Dent Eikerenkoetter (Wife) and Xavier F. Eikerenkoetter (Son)
- mid 20th-early 21st century
- Object number
- 2022.60.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- tie tacks
- Medium
- rhinestone on metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (overall): 1 × 15/16 × 3/4 in. (2.5 × 2.4 × 2 cm)
- H x W x D (tie tack without locking pin): 1 × 15/16 × 11/16 in. (2.5 × 2.4 × 1.8 cm)
- H x W x D (locking pin): 7/16 × 7/16 × 7/16 in. (1.1 × 1.1 × 1.1 cm)
- Place purchased
- England, Europe
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Jewelry and Adornment
- Clothing - Fashion and Historical
- On View
- NMAAHC (1400 Constitution Ave NW), National Mall Location, Second Floor, 2 050
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Christianity
- Clothing and dress
- Fashion
- Fashion design
- Preaching
- Radio
- Religion
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2022.60.4
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd523ebe0b8-991a-48d2-ad07-8e01563cc195
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