mourning jewelry
Bereavement keepsake worn
Mourning jewelry is jewelry worn to commemorate the dead, especially popular in the Victorian era.
Pieces often incorporated the deceased's hair, black enamel, or jet, and might bear inscriptions or miniature portraits.
A mourning ring or mourning brooch served as both memorial and social signal of bereavement.
- gold locketHinged jewelry holding pictures
- locketHinged pendant holding keepsakes
- broochDecorative fastening ornament
- hairworkCraft using human strands
- lock of hairGathered strands from scalp
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Dramatic, attention-grabbing ornaments
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