Description: Offering this vintage mourning black bar brooch/pin. Unsure of the age but basing on the clasp, the less mechanical a clasp or fastener looks, the older the brooch is. Also, thicker pins tend to indicate an older item, as they were designed to fit through multiple layers of thick fabric. HISTORY OF MOURNING JEWELRY: Queen Victoria made black jewellery fashionable after the death of Prince Albert in 1861. This is why it is widely associated with the Victorian Era, although mourning jewellery dates back to the 16th Century. Queen Victoria and the members of her court not only attended the funeral of Prince Albert donning mourning jewellery – they dressed in black clothing and matching mourning jewellery for decades following his death. Early mourning jewellery could be described as more macabre and symbolised the concept of ‘memento mori’ which is a reminder that you will die. This style featured depictions of death itself: think skulls, coffins and grave diggers, while later mourning jewellery centred on the memory of individuals with inscriptions like ‘lost but never forgotten’ and imagery of angels or clouds, flowers like the ‘forget me not’ and later by the end of the 19th Century a bit more colour like turquoise being the colour of the forget me not.
Price: 89 USD
Location: Louisa, Virginia
End Time: 2024-09-06T19:51:51.000Z
Shipping Cost: 6 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Setting Style: Bar
Brand: Unbranded
Type: Pin
Color: Black
