Crown tie tack worn by Reverend Ike

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

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.

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