Antique French Victorian Mourning Silver Jet Pendant Leverback Button Earrings

Description

Details
Very good condition.
Fresh looking, wear is noticeable on close inspection.
Silver setting has a bright patina with some surface wear.
No dents or imperfections to the shape or signs of repair.
Jet pendants have a bit of wear, just along outer edges which is noticeable on close inspection.
Leverback is original and works securely.
Era                Victorian
Length           Just over 1/2
”
Width             8mm
Mark              See photo
Weight           1 grams
Material          800 silver, natural jet
Collector Note
Made by hand or in small groups of similar styles, vintage jewelry is individualistic with its own special history.
Truly delicate, minimal silhouette has a feather-light feel at your earrs.
Drops are slim yet slightly domed in shape.
BackStory
O
n Mourning Jewelry.
Mourning jewelry from the Georgian and Victorian eras were special, custom pieces designed in the memory of a deceased loved one. While many mourning pieces used dark materials like natural onyx or jet to convey grief, they were often surprisingly hopeful, as the majority of the western world believed they would one day be reunited with their loved one in the afterlife. Pieces incorporated symbols that represented this hope or the characteristics of their loved one, as well as locks of hair or small portraits. Today, collecting and wearing antique mourning jewelry is to honor the memory of a real person and appreciate the sentimentality of a bygone era.
On Victorian.
A young Queen Victoria assumed her role in 1837 and her taste in jewelry quickly became culturally influential, within England and beyond. Her relationship to jewelry was enmeshed with her husband, Prince Albert, who gifted the Queen for their engagement, a snake ring, embedded with an emerald (her birthstone) in its head. Continuing from the Georgian era and intensified by Queen Victoria
’
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taste, sentimental and figural jewelry was a major trend throughout the Victorian era. When certain ideas and words were deemed too forward or improper to be spoken, jewelry and symbolic meaning was used to communicate what was left unsaid.
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