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Secret Message in Jewellery Part 4 - Memento Mori, Something to Remember Me By
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The Georgians and Victorians began to symbolise their mourning with pieces of their departed loved ones. Locks of hair were the most popular, but plenty of teeth can be seen set in Victorian brooch... and the occasional glass eyeball.
This article gives a little background in o Memento mori and then expands on the topic of mementos that used parts of the dead in jewellery.
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Secret Message in Jewellery Part 3 - Acrostic Jewellery
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Symbolism in jewellery was an enchanting element of Georgian and Victorian dressing. There was much to be learned from a quick study of the gems a... -
Secret Message in Jewellery Part 2 - Hand Symbols
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Symbolism in jewellery was an enchanting element of Georgian and Victorian dressing. Whether you were signalling an openness to flirtation, the mo... -
Secret Messages in Jewellery, Part 1 – Secret Eyes
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These brooches, lockets and pendants were particularly popular in England and France during the 18th & 19th centuries. They became the hot gift for your lover when an English Prince- a Protestant, gave one to the Catholic widow who he had scandalously fallen in love with- Real Romeo and Juliet stuff. Thus they were the new hip thing, if you don't carry some disembodied eye art, are you even in love?
