About this Piece
| Era: | Victorian |
| Length: | Range slightly in size at around 1/2" with each bail loop being about 3mm |
| Material: | Tests for gold filled |
| Weight: | 37 grams |
| Mark: | No mark |
Condition and Quality
| ● | These are antique components that are for attaching multiple ends together with a dangling drop extending down for example. Some of the bail loops will need to be bent back in shape to be used after you have slipped something on. All of them are split bails meaning they are meant to be bent to allow a component to be put on and then bent back with jewelry tools. |
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.