If you’re interested in going down this particular rabbit hole, Cann suggests looking into the strange beauty of Victorian mourning jewelry. “The bereaved would take a lock of the decedent’s ...

But long before their reign, a far less dazzling gem captured the hearts of jewelry ... with mourning dress ever since.) ...

they wore special mourning jewelry fashioned of jet or other black, matte-surfaced materials. The principal exception to jet jewelry was hair jewelry. Elaborately fashioned from locks of the ...

a nightmarish Leonora Carrington painting, a MAD Issue 8 complete “Frank N. Stein” story, a German wax-head doll, and a Georgian & Victorian mourning jewelry collection!

Ornate Georgian jewelry dates from 1714 to 1830; the Victorian era ... old-fashioned and mourning brooches and pendants for sale. One piece de resistance at a recent Jewelry and Object Show ...

Yet, this mourning hair braiding wasn’t limited to just rings and came in all sorts of displayable forms. Photography was just becoming commercially available in the late Victorian period.

In the mid-19th century, photographs with ghostlike figures became collectible amusements thanks to the invention of the stereoscope – a device that created three-dimensional optical illusions.

In a small room, an unoccupied wooden coffin rests in the center. In another, a buttoned-up black wedding dress is paired with a dark, lace mourning veil. On a table lays wreaths of hair and lit ...

Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social constraints of their time? Victorian Lettering: Jenna Blazevich They say Alice Christina Abbott’s weapon of choice was a cup of tea.

Pressed flower art, elaborately designed bars of soap, trading cards, bone jewelry, taxidermied animals and Victorian death ...

This presentation will focus on the mourning, funeral and burial practices of the Victorian Era. The tea will run from 3 to 4:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Express along LeClaire's riverfront at 1201 ...

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