About this Piece
| Length: | 3/4" - 1 1/8" (including bail) |
| Width: | 1/4" - 1/5" |
| Material: | Tests for gold filled |
| Weight: | 27 grams |
| Mark: | No mark |
| Era: | Victorian |
Condition and Quality
| ● | Some of the clasps have quite a bit of wear to the finish and they can all use a cleaning. |
| ● | Almost all of the clasps are secure however a few would need repairs to use. There are quitte a few bails that are misshapen and would need to be shaped back, some of the clips are a little misshapen and would have to be fixed to latch-up perfectly even. |
Collector Note
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’s 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.