Many modern Victorian jewels are being made with a sentimental meaning. Favourite designs at the moment are brooches in the shape of true lovers' knots, crescent moons, and those glittering diamond stars that became the personal badge almost of the late Empress Elizabeth of Austria. Lovers' hearts, too, intertwined and pierced by an arrow, a spray of ivy and even a pair of clasped hands ar all represented. But it remains to be seen whether memorial hair jewellery, so fashionable in 1850, will be restored to favour, as the secret of how it was actually made is lost, Set in pinchbeck, the beloved's hair was first skilfully treated and then woven into necklaces and bracelets.
Geed-pearl ornaments are among the prettiest forms of old-fashioned Victorian jewellery, and increasingly in demand.
So are old-fashioned lockets, which are being worn on a black velvet ribbon tied round the throat,
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