Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
November 13, 1808
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 37
Additional Source Text:
"Being an Inch and a half in diameter. found near Loyd Jones, Lower merrian [Merion] Township Montgomery County Pena."
Notes:
Shorl is black variety of tourmaline.
Lloyd Jones (1765-1852) operated a paper mill in Lower Merion Township from 1791 until as late as 1821. See John Bidwell, American Paper Mills, 1690-1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade (Hanover, N.H., 1913), p. 41.
