Two passementeries, 20th c.

Fiocchi confezionati in bisso marino dal dottor Basso-Arnoux, I-Carloforte CA, 20th century. Private Property (MS-Inventory 49 und 50)

Two passementeries, ca 1918, I-Sardinia. Private property (MS Inventory 49 and 50).

Specification: ”fiocchi confezionati in bisso marino dal dottor Basso-Arnoux, Carloforte (CA)”

Two sea silk fibre beards set in two crocheted balls, with cord, and price label 25,00 (49) and metal eyelet with ring (50).

In his 1916 publication Sulla pesca ed utilizzazione della ‘Pinna Nobilis’ e del relativo bisso, Basso-Arnoux describes in detail his invention of processing fibre beards into small objects – these two objects fit this description well. Basso-Arnoux lived in the last years of his life in Carloforte on the island of San’Pietro, next to the island Sant Antioco.

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Sources: Basso-Arnoux 1916, Campi 2004