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A gold and mother of pear inlayed photo album which Diana Daghavarian Colpitts' grandmother Arsine brought as one of the items in the trunk out of Constantinople as they fled the genocide.

A pair of beads acquired by Diana Colpitts' grandfather, prominent Armenian intellectual Nazaret Assaturian from a market in Cairo.

A bronze bracelet depicting what seems to be heads of serpents at each end. It is a slip-on bracelet. It is very old: considered ancient even circa 1920 when Dr. Dagavarian bought it at an Egyptian market.

An ancient ring, browned with age, with the faintest remnants of an etching in its face

A passport belonging to Diana Colpitts' grandfather, prominent intellectual Nazaret Dagavarian, which he carried throughout his travels as ambassador for Armenia in Turkish Parliament.

A studio photograph of Arsine Dagavarian, standing in a simple, long-sleeved black dress and perched on a stairs prop. At the bottom of the photograph, the photography studio and the address.

A studio portrait of a life lost to genocide: Nazaret Dagavarian, doctor of medicine and agriculture, astronomer, philosopher, and thinker.