A charming vintage gold charm stanhope of a chuch that opens to show a tiny priest marrying a couple. The charm has stanhope viewer in thr window that when looked through has the marriage vows written out. The bottom is marked 375 for 9k gold and has other marks including the markers mark F.M

3.5 grams and 12mmx8mm, 16mm tall.

This stanhope was apart of the personal collection of the late well known expert and author  the late Douglas Jull. Douglas Jull Co founded the Stanhope collectors club, edited the stanhope magazine "the peeper" as well as publishing the book "collecting stanhopes".

Stanhopes are a novelty souviner which eventually was known to be sold at grand tour and tourist locations around the world. These souviners include a tiny glass insert which has microfilm on one end. The result is when you look through the insert you can see a full imagen, text or a series of images.

The insert which is know by the name of Lord Charles Stanhope, possibly because he's daughter was a known world traveller, is actually a coddington magnifier invented by Sir David Brewster in the 1830s. This was then adapted by Rene Dagron who attached microphotographs which has recently been invented by John Benjamin Dancer to the coddington magnifier. Rene Dagron then produced novelty items which included these new insert with the name Stanhope.

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