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Simplicity

ca. 1968

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

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Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This is the Simplicity necklace designed and created by jeweler Art Smith. The necklace is made of a sterling silver wire shaped as an open-ended torque necklace, or neck ring, with flattened ends. At the off center of the neck ring, the necklace loops around a brownish-red polished sphere of cornelian gemstone. The necklace has one hallmark on the backside of neck ring’s left flattened end, Smith’s signature [Art Smith].

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Catalog metadata · CC0 · Source checked 2026-10-13

Catalog reference: 2023.12.26

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