Category: Jewellery

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  Cursed Jewels: The Hope Diamond

  If its history and legends are to be believed, the Hope Diamond is not only priceless, but CURSED.

  November 26, 2022
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  The Hangman’s Locket

  As much as the Victorians revelled in beauty and sentimentality, they really were a bunch of morbid sods at heart.

  May 2, 2022
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  Window Shopping with Queen Victoria

  Some of Queen Victoria’s mourning jewellery is going up for Auction on March 24th 2021 and if you can’t treat the catalogue as the ultimate…

  March 20, 2021
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  Mourning Gems: Hester Ann Barfield

  A hair brooch, a name and a cross-continental journey. Hester Ann Barfield 1853-1856.

  November 30, 2020
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  Whitby Jet: What, Why and When?

  With Halloween knocking on our door and Whitby goth events calling our name, many of our minds turn to jet, indulgent dark jewellery and the…

  October 26, 2019